In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. It is also...

The use of capital punishment by the United States military is a legal punishment in martial criminal justice. Despite its legality, capital punishment...

Capital punishment is a legal punishment under the criminal justice system of the United States federal government. It is the most serious punishment...

Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States existed until March 2, 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in Roper v. Simmons...

The debate over capital punishment in the United States existed as early as the colonial period. As of April 2022, it remains a legal penalty within 28...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The state has executed the second largest number of convicts in the United States...

The relationship between race and capital punishment in the United States has been studied extensively. As of 2014, 42 percent of those on death row in...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Florida. Since 1976, the state has executed 105 convicted murderers, all at Florida State Prison...

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom predates the formation of the UK, having been used within the British Isles from ancient times until the second...

In the U.S. state of California, capital punishment is not allowed to be carried out as of March 2019,[update] because executions were halted by an official...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Utah. Utah was the first state to resume executions after the 1972–1976 national moratorium...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio, although all executions have been suspended indefinitely by Governor Mike DeWine until...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arizona. After the execution of Joseph Wood in 2014, executions were temporarily suspended...

Haute, was the murderer Matthew Wrinkles in 2009. Capital punishment by the United States federal government takes place at the United States Penitentiary...

Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. In some years, its...

certain forms of aggravated murder in the United States. Some jurisdictions that provide for death as a possible punishment for murder, such as California...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Since 1820, a total of 505 individuals have been executed. According to the Arkansas...

Capital punishment is currently a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Kansas, although it has not been used since 1965. From 1853 to 1965, 76 executions...

Capital punishment is one of two possible penalties for aggravated murder in the U.S. state of Oregon, with it being required by the Constitution of Oregon...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Nevada. There have been no executions in Nevada since 2006, in part because of a shortage of...

capital offense. Since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia until Connecticut repealed capital punishment in 2012, Connecticut...

legally in the United States of America from before the nation's birth, up to 1972 when the United States Supreme Court found capital punishment to be in violation...

Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Pennsylvania. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Pennsylvania since 1999...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Louisiana since...

Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in North Carolina...

Capital punishment has been repealed in the U.S. state of Illinois since 2011. Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. The last...

Capital punishment in Missouri first used in 1810 is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Missouri. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Nebraska. In 2015, the state legislature voted to repeal the death penalty, overriding governor...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual...