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
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Report: Black People 7.5 Times More Likely to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder than Whites
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Spring 2022
2,414 people on US death row, but "only" 1385 at "real risk of execution"
- JULY 1, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 2022 DPIC Mid-Year Review
7 new death sentences and 7 executions so far
JUNE 30, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in
First Black Woman to Serve as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
JUNE 27, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden must take action on promise to end federal death penalty
APRIL 26, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Joe Biden grants clemency to 78 people
But no federal death row inmates
APRIL 11, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson
First African-American Woman to Serve on U.S. Supreme Court
MARCH 29, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - President Biden Signs Law Making Lynching a Federal Crime
MARCH 15, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Minitary. Sept. 11 Prosecutors Are in Plea Talks
Guilty plea in exchange for life sentences
- MARCH 14, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - The latest edition of "Death Row USA" Drusa has been published
State Death Rows Drop Below 2,400 For First Time Since 1990
MARCH 6, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Feds appeal reversal in Alfonso Rodriguez death penalty case
MARCH 4, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev