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Executions In America Stock Photos

Browse 5,204 executions in america photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

View of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shows an electric chair and gurney August 29, 2001 in...

Death Chamber at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

Capital Punishment, Electric Chair, USA

The execution bed sits empty on Death Row April 25, 1997 at Texas Death Row in Huntsville, Texas. About 450 prisoners are on the Row. Texas has the...

Prisoners on Texas Death Row

Capital Punishment, Execution, Execution Equipment

In this photo released 02 February by the Texas Department of Corrections, is the gurney used to execute prisoners by lethal injection; called the...

US-DEATH CHAMBER-KARLA FAYE TUCKER

This undated photo shows the death chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson, GA. British national Tracy Housel is scheduled to be executed...

British National Faces Execution In Georgia

Capital Punishment, USA, Prison

The Texas death chamber in Huntsville, TX, June 23, 2000 where Texas death row inmate Gary Graham was put to death by lethal injection on June 22,...

Texas death chamber in Huntsville

Texas, Death, Execution Equipment

Death chamber gurney at the Huntsville prison in Texas. The State of Texas adopted lethal injection as a means of execution in 1977. The first lethal...

Texas Death Row

Hospital Gurney, Execution, Texas

South Carolina's electric chair sits in the death chamber at Broad River Correctional Facility. The viewing room to the right is where media, lawyers...

US-NEWS-SC-EXECUTION-CS

South Carolina, Electric Chair, Prison

gas chamber in wyoming frontier prison - executions in america stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Gas Chamber in Wyoming Frontier Prison

Capital Punishment, Gas Chamber

The Huntsville Unit is photographed on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024 in Huntsville.

Burton Execution

Capital Punishment, Execution, USA

Observers will view the executions through a set of glass windows. Officials from San Quentin State Prison display the newly completed Lethal...

Observers will view the executions through a set of glass windows. Officials from San Quentin State Prison display the newly completed Lethal Injection Facility, on Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 in San Quentin, Calif.

Lethal injection Death Chamber at a Texas prison on November 14, 1991 at Huntsville, The Ellis Unit, Texas

The Lethal Injection Death Chamber at Huntsville, Texas,

Lethal Injection, Texas, Prison

Execution by electric chair, United States, 1898. The warden holds a handkerchief in his left hand. The doctor holds his watch. The electrician...

Execution by electric chair, United States, 1898.

Electric Chair, Execution

'Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair', United States, 1898. The operation takes only a couple of seconds to perform, each keeper being...

'Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair', United States, 1898.

Electric Chair, Execution

The United States Disciplinary Barracks, where Nidal Malik Hasan is being held on death row, is seen in Fort Leavenworth. Hasan, the U.S. Army Major...

The United States Disciplinary Barracks, where Nidal Malik

Point of the Mountain, Utah: Photo of a group of newsmen looking at, and taking photos of the chair in which Gary Gilmore sat when facing the firing...

Reporters Observing Execution Chair

Firing Squad, Utah, Execution

Child peers through a group of people among the crowd of approximately 20,000 people who had gathered to witness the public hanging of Rainey Bethea...

Final Public Execution In The USA

Hanging, Capital Punishment, Execution

Demonstrator holds a sign against capital punishment outside the department of corrections before the scheduled firing squad execution of South...

South Carolina Inmate Mikal Mahdi Faces Execution By Firing Squad

USA, Capital Punishment, Firing Squad

Military police firing squad executes a member of the Hitler Youth. The 16 year old has been found guilty of spying on US troops, | Location:...

US Military Police Execute Hitler Youth Member, ca. 1946

Ron Kaz wears a hat outside the department of corrections before the scheduled firing squad execution of South Carolina inmate Mikal Mahdi on April...

South Carolina Inmate Mikal Mahdi Faces Execution By Firing Squad

Firing Squad, USA, Execution

antique black and white photograph: execution wall (simulation), cuba - executions in america stock illustrations

Antique black and white photograph: Execution Wall (simulation), Cuba

Capital Punishment, Firing Squad, Execution Equipment

An activist with the Abolitionist Action Committee hands out brochures opposing the death penalty outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on July...

Protesters Call For Death Penalty Abolishment Outside The Supreme Court

USA, Execution, Protest

Public execution of murderers Joseph Hetherington and Philander Brace, 29 July 1856, convicted by a committee of San Francisco to die on the gallows,...

Public execution of murderers Joseph Hetherington and Philander Brace

Capital Punishment, USA, Crime

Group of people join the crowd of approximately 20,000 people who had gathered to witness the public hanging of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky,...

Final Public Execution In The USA

Capital Punishment, Execution

Demonstrators wave flags on the Francis Scott Key Bridge during a rally in support of the Iranian people and to condemn the execution of political...

US-ISRAEL-IRAN-WAR-DEMONSTRATION

Iran, USA, Conflict

Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, Auburn Prison, USA, 6 August 1890. William Kemmler, a brute who chopped a woman to...

Execution of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair, USA, 6 August 1890.

Execution by electric chair, 1890. The first execution by electric chair was carried out at Auburn Prison, New York, 6 August 1890 using a...

Execution by electric chair, 1890.

Sentenced to death on the electric chair at the Sing Sing prison . In 1900.

A sentenced to death

Electric Chair, Capital Punishment, Crime

Execution of Murat, Illustration from the Book, Historical Cabinet, LH Young Publisher, New Haven, 1834.

Execution of Murat, Illustration from the Book, Historical Cabinet, LH Young Publisher, New Haven, 1834

This is Alabama's electric chair, "Yellow Momma" in inmate lingo, in Holman Prison. Convicted of the 1977 robbery-murder of a Mobile, Alabama...

Capital Punishment, Electric Chair, Death Row

The execution by hanging of American abolitionist John Brown, December 2 in Charlestown, Virginia. Pen and ink on paper by David Hunter Strother.

Execution of American abolitionist John Brown

Abolitionism - Anti-slavery Movement

Activists with the Abolitionist Action Committee attend a rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on July 02, 2024 in Washington, DC. Since...

Protesters Call For Death Penalty Abolishment Outside The Supreme Court

USA, Execution, Protest

Photograph of two hooded figures, standing on a platform with nooses around their necks, surrounded by American soldiers and spectators participating...

Vintage Military Hanging

Military police tie a member of the Hitler Youth to a stake. The 17 year-old boy will be executed by firing squad for spying on US troops. |...

US Military Police Prepare to Execute Hitler Youth Member, ca. 1946

Execution, Nazism

Huge crowd of over 15,000 people gathers around a scaffold to witness the public hanging of 26-year old Rainey Bethea, Owensboro, Kentucky. Public...

Rainey Bethea Hanging

Steven Nelson spent 12 years on Texas death row and scheduled for execution on February 5, 2025 stands behind glass at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit,...

US-JUSTICE-EXECUTION-TEXAS

Activists with the Abolitionist Action Committee stand outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on July 02, 2024 in Washington, DC. Since June...

Protesters Call For Death Penalty Abolishment Outside The Supreme Court

Protest, USA, U.S. Supreme Court

ROOM FOR EXECUTION BY LETHAL INJECTION IN TEXAS

ROOM FOR EXECUTION BY LETHAL INJECTION IN TEXAS

Capital Punishment, Texas, Execution

One half of a stereo view showing a form of public execution in Shanghai, China is produced by Underwood & Underwood in New York City in 1900. The...

Chinese Death Penalty

The hearse carrying the body of convicted killer Aileen Wuornos leaves the Florida State Prison following her execution by lethal injection October...

Female Serial Killer Executed In Florida

Florida - US State, Prison, Aileen Wuornos

Member of law enforcement stands near a vehicle at the department of corrections before the scheduled firing squad execution of South Carolina inmate...

South Carolina Inmate Mikal Mahdi Faces Execution By Firing Squad

Firing Squad, Execution, South Carolina

The lethal injection is delivered from this room, by tubes that run through holes in the wall into the execution chamber. Also, a bank of telephones...

The lethal injection is delivered from this room, by tubes that run through holes in the wall into the execution chamber. Also, a bank of telephones would be used if a stay of execution is ordered. Officials from San Quentin State Prison display the new

This 11 February file photo shows the lethal injection room used for executions inside the Arizona prison complex in Florence, AZ. Karl LaGrand, a...

This 11 February file photo shows the lethal injec

Arizona, Execution Equipment, Prison

The electric chair at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama, USA. This electric chair will be used to execute prisoner John Louis Evan. | Location:...

Electric Chair in Holman Prison

Prison, Alabama - US State, Execution

Episode 2 -- Pictured: Gilbert Gottfried as Prisoner, Joe Piscopo as Executioner during the 'Electric Chair' skit on November 22, 1980 -- Photo by:...

Saturday Night Live

Capital Punishment, Execution, Electric Chair

Walls Unit in Huntsville prison is where lethal injections are carried out on inmates.

Huntsville Prison

Prison, USA, 1980-1989

Garry Graham, a prisoner convicted of murder who had many supporters beliving he was innocent, appears in the visiting booth of Texas' death row two...

Texas Death Row

Death Row, Capital Punishment, Texas

People gather along the National Mall to protest the Islamic regime and executions of Iranians on June 6, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Iran Islamic Regime Protest In Washington DC

Demonstrators hold signs as they gather near the Francis Scott Key Bridge during rally in support of the Iranian people and to condemn the execution...

US-ISRAEL-IRAN-WAR-DEMONSTRATION

Execution, Iran, Protest

"Old Sparky," the decommissioned electric chair in which 361 prisoners were executed between 1924 and 1964 at the Texas Prison Museum, sits on...

Houston Chronicle

Electric Chair, Prisoner

The Texas death chamber in Huntsville, TX, June 23, 2000 where Texas death row inmate Gary Graham was put to death by lethal injection on June 22,...

Texas death chamber in Huntsville

Death, Texas, Execution Equipment

spanish troops in cuba - 1869 - executions in america stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Spanish Troops in Cuba - 1869

Revolutionary War, USA, Colonialism

Randy Gardner participates in a protest outside Cator Ruma and Associates, a Boise engineering firm contracted to design Idaho's new firing squad...

US-NEWS-IDAHO-FIRING-SQUAD-PROTEST-1-ID

Activists with the Abolitionist Action Committee stand outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on July 02, 2024 in Washington, DC. Since June...

Protesters Call For Death Penalty Abolishment Outside The Supreme Court

USA, U.S. Supreme Court, Supreme Court

Death Chamber, Ohio. Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio

Postcard of Death Chamber in Ohio State Penitentiary

Sing Sing, NY - In this grim, business-like chair, hundreds of slayers, among them Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder, the only woman to be electrocuted in...

The Electric Chair at Sing Sing Prison

Electric Chair, Sing Sing Prison, 1940-1949

Woman holds a sign during a demonstration outside the department of corrections before the scheduled firing squad execution South Carolina inmate...

South Carolina Inmate Mikal Mahdi Faces Execution By Firing Squad

Firing Squad, USA, South Carolina

Members of law enforcement look on as demonstrators gather outside the department of corrections before the scheduled firing squad execution of South...

South Carolina Inmate Mikal Mahdi Faces Execution By Firing Squad

Execution, Firing Squad, USA

This graphic breaks down the method used in all executions in the U.S. Since 1977. Data source: Death Penalty Information Center.

Charted: How the U.S. Carries Out the Death Penalty

Capital Punishment, USA, Death

Figure sits on wood-built structure looking across the crowd of approximately 20,000 people who had gathered to witness the public hanging of Rainey...

Final Public Execution In The USA

An executed criminal hangs from the scaffold in America, circa 1935.

Execution, Execution Equipment, USA

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