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Ross executed CONNECTICUT -- Serial killer Michael Ross was declared dead at 2.25 a.m. Friday, executed by lethal injection. The execution was be the first in more than four decades for the New England region. Opponents of the death penalty protested the execution calling it "state sponsored homicide." Ross, an admitted killer of eight, said he wanted to die because he owed it to the families of the victims. Thirty-eight states permit capital punishment. One-hundred-twenty-five individuals were sentenced to death in the United States in 2004. States that have a death penalty: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, N. Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, N. Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, S. Carolina, S. Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming. States that do not have a death penalty: Wisconsin, West Virginia, Vermont, Rhode Island, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, Maine, Iowa, Hawaii, Alaska, and the District of Columbia. This Electric Chair is not real but death by electrocution is, in some states.