They are some of the country's most notorious killers and their crimes shocked the world. Here are their last meals before they were executed.

Alabama conducted the United States' second execution with the use of nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, finally killing Alan Eugene Miller for the fatal 1999 workplace shooting of three people.

Death row inmates in five states, not including Florida, are scheduled to be put to death in the coming week defying a decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S. Executions are planned in Alabama,

The state Supreme Court set the order in which the men would be executed with the earliest for a Spartanburg man in October and into March for others

If this week’s remaining executions are completed, the United States will have reached 1,600 executions since the death penalty was reinstated by the US Supreme Court in 1976.

The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S.

If this week’s remaining executions are completed, the United States will have reached 1,600 executions since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, said Robin Maher, the center’s executive director.

If all the executions are carried out, this will reportedly be the first time in more than 20 years that five were held in seven days.