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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.
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.
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The Death Penalty Information Center provides essential statistics like execution numbers, death row population, and murder rates for each state. We also provide historical background on the death penalty in each state, including abolitionist states.
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...
17 lis 2017 · Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
1 lip 2024 · The Death Penalty in 2023: Year End Report. Only 5 states carried out executions and 7 states imposed new death sentences in 2023, as more Americans say the death penalty is applied unfairly, rather than fairly. READ MORE
California (29%), Florida (14%), and Texas (8%) held more than half of the prisoners under sentence of death in the United States on December 31, 2021. The BOP held 42 prisoners under sentence of death at yearend. At yearend 2021, 30 states and the federal government had death penalty statutes (map 1).