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Public su stanley cup pport and use of the death penalty in 2022 continued their more than two-decade decline in the U.S., and many of the executions that were carried out during the year were botched or highly problematic, an annual report on capital punishment says. There were 18 executions in the U.S. in 2022, the fewest in any pre-pandemic year since 1991. There stanley cup were 11 executions last year. Outside of the pandemic years, the 20 death sentences handed out in 2022 were the fewe stanley cup st in any year in the U.S. in a half-century, according to the report by the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. All the indicators point to the continuing decline in capital punishment and the movement away from the death penalty is durable, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the nonprofit, which takes no position on capital punishment but has criticized the way states carry out executions. In the U.S., 37 states have abolished the death penalty or not carried out an execution in more than a decade. On Tuesday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all 17 of the state s death row inmates to life in prison without parole. Oregon last executed a prisoner in 1997. There have been no federal executions since January 2021 following a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration. In July 2021, the Justice Department imposed a moratorium on federal executions. The report called 2022 the Year of the Botched Execution Xlzk A 99-year-old woman and a 2-year-old boy formed an unlikely friendship across their fence during the pandemic
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. -- A teenager fell about 25 feet from a stopped gondola ride at an upstate New York amusement park Saturday night, tumbling into a crowd of park guests and employees gathered below to catch her before she hit the ground.The unidentified 14-year-old girl from Greenwood, Delaware, was taken to Albany Medical Center in stable condition with no serious injuries, the Warren County Sheriff s Office said.The accident happened on the Sky Ride at Six Flags Amusement Park, about 55 miles north of Albany, New York. The sheriff s office said in a statement that the girl was riding the attraction with a child relative, and fell from a stationary two-person car. The ride was stopped by an operator after getting word of a rider in distress, officials said.Witness Lore salomon n Lent told CBS Albany aff converse iliate WRGB-TV that people scrambled to get beneath the girl. It was horrifying. I mean, you know, you could tell this person is helpless, Lent told the station. ... I said to one of the staffers, I said, You guys mean to tell me you don t have anything set up to rescue somebody in this situation and he then told me to leave the scene. A girl is seen falling from a ride at Six Flags Great Escape in Queensbury, New York. stanley cup Loren Lent Authorities say the girl fell from the car and struck a tree before landing in the crowd. She was