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In the United States, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) is a legal penalty in 27 states, throughout the country at the federal level, and in American Samoa. [b][1] It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses.
Hover over a state on the map to learn its death penalty status and year of reinstatement or abolition. For more in-depth information on each state, click on the links below the map. States With the Death Penalty (27)
24 kwi 2023 · View a US map that outlines current capital punishment legality by state, along with a table that details the history of each state's death penalty laws.
Information about scheduled executions around the country. Innocence. For every 8.2 people executed in the United States in the modern era of the death penalty, one person on death row has been exonerated. State-By-State. States With and Without the Death Penalty. DPIFact Sheet.
At yearend 2021, 30 states and the federal government had death penalty statutes (map 1). In July 2021, Virginia abolished the state’s capital murder ofense (see Status of the death penalty in 2021), leaving a total of 20 states and the District of Columbia with no death penalty statute in force on December 31, 2021.
As of January 2023, the death penalty was legal in 27 states. In three of these states (California, Pennsylvania, and Oregon), the death penalty had been placed under a gubernatorial moratorium, though the laws providing for the death penalty in those states remained on the books.
27 paź 2021 · Twenty-four states allow the death penalty, 23 don’t and three have a moratorium on it, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center. About half the states permit capital...
