The gas chamber. The firing squad. The electric chair. Methods the rest of the world abandoned as barbaric. Methods that carry the weight of history — of Jim Crow execution chambers, of lynching dressed up in legal clothing, of a state that has always found ways to kill the people it considers disposable.
What you are about to read was compiled not by the federal government but by independent journalists. The Trace, a nonprofit investigative newsroom focused on gun violence, built a running tracker of every incident it could document. Capital & Main, ProPublica, NBC News, local outlets, and legal filings filled in additional details. Several agents involved have not been identified. Several incidents have not been publicly acknowledged at all.
