The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. Public support and use of the death penalty in 2022 continued its more than two-decade long decline in the U.S., and many of the executions that were carried out were “botched” or highly problematic, according to an annual report on capital punishment released Friday, Dec. 16. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)