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
MARCH 30, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Senate OKs SB 450, easier path to imposing death penalty
MARCH 16, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Dakota. Federal prosecutors will not seek death for Alfonso Rodriguez
MARCH 13, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Sayfullo Saipov sentenced to life in prison without parole
JANUARY 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - US Indicts Three In Iran-Backed Plot To Kill Masih Alinejad
A U.S. journalist of Iranian origin now living in New York
JANUARY 26, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Family Members of Murder Victims Call on North Carolina, Nevada to Commute States’ Death Rows
JANUARY 20, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 300 organizations send letter to Biden to end death penalty
JANUARY 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty
- JANUARY 17, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Feds won’t seek death penalty against Patrick Crusius
El Paso Walmart gunman accused of massacring 23 people
- DECEMBER 16, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA DPIC 2022 Year End Report
22 death sentences and 18 executions in 2022
NOVEMBER 15, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Rasmussen Reports poll: 46% in favour of death penalty, 28% against, 26% abstentions
NOVEMBER 14, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gallup poll: 55% Support Death Penalty, 42% against, 3% abstentions.
OCTOBER 12, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Federal Bureau of Prisons denies transfer of John Fitzgerald Hanson