A tragic death penalty milestone coming up

nearly 1000 executed and 3400 more waiting...

After a 10-year moratorium, [Gary] Gilmore in 1977 became the first person to be executed following a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that validated state laws to reform the capital punishment system. Since then, 997 prisoners have been executed, and next week, the 998th, 999th and 1,000th are scheduled to die.

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While his case was well-known, most today could probably not name even one of the more than 3,400 prisoners - including 118 foreign nationals - on death row in the U.S. In the last 28 years, the U.S. has executed on average one person every 10 days.

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