page_title: List of people executed by lethal injection
section_title: Executions
hierarchical_section_title: List of people executed by lethal injection / Executions
caption_attribution_description: English: Prison inmate #B-91240: Clarence Ray Allen.
context_page_description: Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person by a government for the express purpose of causing immediate death. While Nazi Germany was known to execute enemies of the state using an injection of lethal drugs, the first country to legalize and formally implement what is referred to today as lethal injection was the United States. The state of Texas adopted it as its form on capital punishment in 1977 and executed the first person by it, Charles Brooks Jr., in 1982. The practice was subsequently adopted by the other U.S. states using capital punishment. As of 2017, the method is being used by 31 U.S. states, as well as by their federal government and military.
  Lethal injection was also adopted as a method of execution by Guatemala in 1996, China in 1997, the Philippines in 1999, Thailand in 2003, Taiwan in 2005, Vietnam in 2013, the Maldives in 2014 and Nigeria in 2015. The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006. While the death penalty still exists in the Maldives, Guatemala and Thailand, no executions have been carried out there since 1954, 2000 and 2009 respectively.
caption: At 76, Clarence Ray Allen is one of the oldest people to be executed in the US.[21]
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