Saturday, November 20, 2021

By State

Capital Punishment in the United States

 


Key:

Green = Capital punishment repealed, never instituted, or struck down as unconstitutional (27)[a]

Blue =  Capital punishment in statute, but executions formally suspended (7)

  Yellow = Capital punishment in statute, but no executions within the last 10 years (9)

Purple =  Capital punishment in statute, but executions informally suspended (1)

  Yellow = Executions carried out within the last 10 years (13)

Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is either abolished, suspended, or an active/inactive legal penalty in parts of the United States, with it being a legal punishment in 27 states, American Samoa, the federal government, and the military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States

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