Talk:List of people executed in the United States in 2014

Three suggestions for this table
I have three suggestions for the table in this article. (1) The execution dates should be listed in USA format (e.g., use February 1, 2014, instead of 1 February 2014). (2) There should be blue wiki links to those inmates who have separate Wikipedia articles. (3) In the column entitled "State", the blue wiki link should include (for example) the link to Capital punishment in Florida, and not a link to simply the state of Florida itself. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 20:36, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Looks like it has already been done. -- Mdann 52   talk to me!  21:03, 7 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, I actually went in and did it myself. I made the time to do so.   Thanks.   Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 05:07, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Offenders
What's with "offenders" and "offences"? Seems oddly vague, considering murder is the only offense people are killed for. Why not "murderers"? Or at least say which law they offended, somewhere? InedibleHulk (talk) 21:07, 24 July 2014 (UTC)


 * That's a good question. I think that this article was simply set up by using the other similar (execution) articles as examples.  It seems to be the convention in Wikipedia that the term "offenders" is used.  As a general rule, the vast majority of those executed will indeed be murderers.  But, technically, there are other offenses that can get a person executed.  For example, there are the "odd" situations such as treason, air piracy, etc.  But there are also crimes that "look like" murder but technically are not murder (for example, conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation of murder, etc.).  So, there are instances where the word "murderer" is not really correct.  The generic word "offender" will always be correct.  Those are my thoughts on this matter.  Thanks.   Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 04:22, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Additions to table
Suggest adding the crime they were convicted for and what year they committed the crime and were convicted. It's quite fascinating that many of these executions are decades after the individual committed the crime. Plot Spoiler (talk) 20:38, 16 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Virtually every single person on this list -- and all similar lists -- will be executed for the crime of murder. So, adding the particular crime of each individual offender will not be all that interesting.  (Also, see my comments in the discussion above about this topic.)  You also mention that: "It's quite fascinating that many of these executions are decades after the individual committed the crime."  I agree.  I have added columns that indicate -- essentially -- how many years the person spent on Death Row.  The column actually indicates how many years elapsed in the criminal's age between the crime being committed and their being executed.  This is a very simple mathematical calculation.  And it gives a very close estimate (within 1 or 2 years, in nearly all cases) for the "amount of time spent on Death Row".  In other words, it shows -- in essence -- how long after the commission of the crime each inmate was executed.  Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 01:26, 7 November 2016 (UTC)