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State by State. 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.
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.
Although it is a legal penalty in 27 states, 19 of them have authority to execute death sentences, with the other 8, as well as the federal government and military, subject to moratoriums. As of 2023, of the 38 OECD member countries, only two (the United States and Japan) allow capital punishment. [3] .
Virginia is the most recent state to abolish the death penalty, outlawing the punishment in July 2021. Before the abolition, the state had executed 113 people between 1976 and 2017, when the last execution took place. Florida has executed 99 convicted people, including notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, since 1976. The state has the highest rate of new capital punishment convictions and the ...
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...
On October 11, 2018, the Washington Supreme Court declared the state’s death penalty statute unconstitutional, saying that it was applied in an arbitrary and racially discriminatory manner. In May 2019, the New Hampshire legislature voted to abolish the death penalty.
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.
Many states in the U.S. still impose the death penalty for capital offenses, including murder, treason, or genocide. Learn more about death penalty laws.
Status of the death penalty in 2020. As of December 31, 2020, a total of 31 states and the federal government authorized the death penalty (tables 1, 2, and 3). While the Washington Supreme Court declared the state death penalty statute unconstitutional, as applied, on October 11, 2018 (State v. Gregory, 192 Wash. 2d 1, 427 P.3d 621 (2018)), the
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