Table:
State | Last execution date | Name | Crime | Method
United States Federal Government | 18 March 2003 | Louis Jones, Jr. | aggravated murder | lethal injection
United States military | 13 April 1961 | John A. Bennett | rape and attempted murder | hanging
Alabama | 25 July 2013 | Andrew Reid Lackey | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Alaska | never used |  |  | 
Arizona | 23 October 2013 | Robert Glen Jones, Jr. | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Arkansas | 28 November 2005 | Eric Nance | aggravated murder | lethal injection
California | 17 January 2006 | Clarence Ray Allen | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Colorado | 13 October 1997 | Gary Lee Davis | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Connecticut | 13 May 2005 | Michael Bruce Ross | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Delaware | 20 April 2012 | Shannon M. Johnson | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Florida | 26 February 2014 | Paul Augustus Howell | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Georgia | 21 February 2013 | Andrew Allen Cook | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Hawaii | never used |  |  | 
Idaho | 12 June 2012 | Richard Albert Leavitt | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Illinois | 17 March 1999 | Andrew Kokoraleis | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Indiana | 11 December 2009 | Matthew Eric Wrinkles | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Iowa | 6 September 1962 | Charles A. Kelly | murder | hanging
Kansas | 22 June 1965 | George York and James Latham | murder | hanging
Kentucky | 21 November 2008 | Marco Allen Chapman | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Louisiana | 7 January 2010 | Gerald J. Bordelon | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Maine | 21 November 1885 | Daniel Wilkinson | murder | hanging
Maryland | 5 December 2005 | Wesley Baker | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Massachusetts | 9 May 1947 | Philip Bellino and Edward Gertson | murder | electric chair
Michigan | never used |  |  | 
Minnesota | 13 February 1906 | William Williams | murder | hanging
Mississippi | 20 June 2012 | Gary Carl Simmons, Jr. | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Missouri | 26 February 2014 | Michael Anthony Taylor | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Montana | 11 August 2006 | David Thomas Dawson | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Nebraska | 2 December 1997 | Robert E. Williams | aggravated murder | electric chair
Nevada | 26 April 2006 | Daryl Linnie Mack | aggravated murder | lethal injection
New Hampshire | 14 July 1939 | Howard Long | murder | hanging
New Jersey | 22 January 1963 | Ralph Hudson | murder | electric chair
New Mexico | 6 November 2001 | Terry D. Clark | aggravated murder | lethal injection
New York | 15 August 1963 | Eddie Mays | murder | electric chair
North Carolina | 18 August 2006 | Samuel Russell Flippen | aggravated murder | lethal injection
North Dakota | 17 October 1905 | John Rooney | murder | hanging
Ohio | 16 January 2014 | Dennis B. McGuire | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Oklahoma | 23 January 2014 | Kenneth Eugene Hogan | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Oregon | 16 May 1997 | Harry Charles Moore | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Pennsylvania | 6 July 1999 | Gary M. Heidnik | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Rhode Island | 14 February 1845 | John Gordon | murder | hanging
South Carolina | 6 May 2011 | Jeffrey Brian Motts | aggravated murder | lethal injection
South Dakota | 30 October 2012 | Donald Eugene Moeller | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Tennessee | 2 December 2009 | Cecil J. Johnson, Jr. | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Texas | 5 February 2014 | Suzanne Margaret Basso | aggravated murder | lethal injection
Utah | 18 June 2010 | Ronnie Lee Gardner | aggravated murder | firing squad
Vermont | 8 December 1954 | Donald DeMag | murder | electric chair
Virginia | 16 January 2013 | Robert Charles Gleason, Jr. | aggravated murder | electric chair
Washington | 10 September 2010 | Cal Coburn Brown | aggravated murder | lethal injection
West Virginia | 3 April 1959 | Elmer Brunner | aggravated murder | electric chair
Wisconsin | 21 August 1851 | John McCaffary | murder | hanging
Wyoming | 22 January 1992 | Mark Hopkinson | aggravated murder | lethal injection

Question: how many states have never used capital punishment?
Answer: 3

Question: which state had their last execution on 5 february 2014?
Answer: Texas

Question: how long has it been since the first hanging occurred?
Answer: 169 years

Question: how many states had their last execution take place in 1997?
Answer: 3

Question: which state had an execution done by the method of lethal injection and occurred in december of 2005?
Answer: Maryland

Question: arizona last put someone to death in october 2013 what state had the closest previous execution?
Answer: Alabama

Question: which state had a more recent execution take place delaware or mississippi?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: what is the total number of states that have never used capital punishment?
Answer: 3

Question: how many states have never executed anyone?
Answer: 3

Question: alabama last put someone to death in 2013 what was its means of execution?
Answer: lethal injection

Question: how many states have done executions in 2014?
Answer: 5

Question: alphabetically what is the largest consecutive amount of states that use lethal injection?
Answer: 8