Twenty people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2016, all by lethal injection.
The state of Georgia executed nine people, setting a record for the most executions conducted there in a calendar year.
[1] In 2016, the State of Georgia executed nine people.
This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year.
Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions.