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repealed, never instituted, or struck down as unconstitutional (27)[a]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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