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
AUGUST 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo. Judge Acosta Throws Out Confession of Suspect as Derived From Torture
AUGUST 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Prisoner swap with USA
Siamak Namazi, Morad Tahbaz, Emad Sharqi + 2 Unk.
AUGUST 3, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. U.S. District Judge Robert Colville imposed the death sentence on Robert Bowers
- AUGUST 1, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal. Jury Sentence Robert Bowers to Death
For 2018 Synagogue Shooting
JULY 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Joe Biden is breaking his promise to end the federal death penalty
JULY 19, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The Czech Republic will extradite a Georgian national over a plot to kill Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad
JULY 13, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal death penalty ban reintroduced in Congress
- JUNE 30, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Judge to Decide Whether Taint of C.I.A. Torture Extended to Guantánamo
JUNE 21, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 70 Years After Their Executions, Rosenberg Sons Still Looking to Clear Mother’s Name
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed on June 19, 1953 for espionage
JUNE 14, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 122,840 people in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails
Why Counting Everyone in Solitary Confinement Matters
JUNE 2, 2023AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.N. Body Condemns Torture of Guantánamo Prisoner Awaiting Capital Trial
Together with United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania and Thailand
MAY 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Summer 2022 Report: 2,394 on death row