1990. Geraldo Rivera on his namesake television program, this clip from an episode titled “24 Hours on Death Row”. We get an inside look at Holman prison in Alabama, a maximum security institution where 25% of the nation’s total executions were carried out in 1989. This rare and exclusive footage gives an inside look at exactly how the punishment is carried out. A true deterrent for violent crime.
In 1989 America suffered nearly 21,000 murders nationwide, with 16 murderers put to death for their crimes.
In 2023, 24 people were put to death as punishment for their crimes. The number of homicides saw a drop from 2022, at just under 19,000.
The electric chair remains an execution option in some states although the vast majority of inmates are executed with lethal injection.