The US government has executed 10 people this year the most since 1896 By: CNN Women lay flowers at a candlelight vigil for Brandon Bernard on December 13 in Los Angeles. Bernard, 40, was the youngest person to be executed in the US in nearly 70 years, and was put to death for a crime committed when he was a teenager.
By Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN (CNN) For the first time in US history, the government has executed more people than all of the 50 states, and the number of federal prisoners put to death this year 10 is the highest since President Grover Cleveland s second term in office, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.