United States
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 202616
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- federal republic with a strong federal tradition
- CONSTITUTION
- September 17, 1787, in effect from March 4, 1789
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- federal court system based on English common law. Each state has its own legal system
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Congress (Senate and House of Representatives)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts; state and county courts
RELIGIONS
51.3% Protestants; 23.9% Catholics; 1.7% Mormons; 1.6% other Christians; 1.7% Jews; 0.7% Muslims; other unspecified or no religion
From the country
APRIL 22, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Prosecutor Says Sept. 11 Suspects Can Be Held Past War Crimes Sentence
APRIL 16, 2024AustraliaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Binding Assurances that Julian Assange Will Not Face the Death Penalty
APRIL 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump calls for cop killers to get ‘mandatory’ death sentence
in wake of slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller
MARCH 25, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The National Registry of Exonerations published its 2023 report
153 exonerations last year, 4 from death row
MARCH 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Top US Nitrogen Gas Producers Ban Use in Executions
- MARCH 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN UNION - Statement on the latest executions in US
FEBRUARY 29, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 61 botched executions since 1977
The last one yesterday, in Idaho, against Thomas Creech
FEBRUARY 24, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Suggests Children Should Watch Public Executions
- JANUARY 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Dissent rises against looming ‘experimental’ execution of Kenneth Smith
JANUARY 12, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.S. to Seek Death for Payton Gendron
Biden thus contradicts his electoral promises
DECEMBER 7, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC 2023 Year End Report
24 executions and 21 new death sentences in 2023
DECEMBER 4, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Innocence Project helped exonerate 9 people in 2023
A list of these cases