Why execute at midnight

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The E-mail message field is required. Please enter the message. Please verify that you are not a robot. Would you also like to submit a review for this item? You already recently rated this item. Inmates less likely to protest? Corrections officials in states that still schedule executions between midnight and 3 a. The state also has more time to fight late challenges. Those issues haven't greatly complicated daytime or evening executions, according to victims' advocates and states that prefer those times.

Four of the five states that have carried out the most executions — Texas, Virginia, Florida and Oklahoma — set afternoon or evening times, while Missouri is the only state to still schedule executions at midnight, the AP found. Texas changed its execution time in , moving it from midnight to 6 p.

Saving overtime pay Ohio quit midnight executions in partly to save thousands of dollars in overtime to prison workers. Daytime executions were the norm in earlier eras. That changed by the s when the U. Executions then moved indoors and electric chairs came into widespread use. They were trying to get rid of the mob atmosphere that attended these public executions. Little said Tennessee's first modern execution in was scheduled at 1 a. He noted the early hour also allows the state to hold multiple executions on the same day if necessary.

The state planned back-to-back executions of convicted killers Paul Dennis Reid and Sedley Alley in Alley became only the second person executed in Tennessee in 45 years, but Reid got a last-minute stay and remains on death row.

Tennessee plans three more executions this year besides Henley's this year, all set for an hour after midnight.