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
FEBRUARY 25, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court
- FEBRUARY 23, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Poll Finds Bipartisan Opposition to Use of the Death Penalty as It is Actually Administered
FEBRUARY 15, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Department of Justice Rejects Use of Evidence Obtained by Torture in Guantánamo Case
FEBRUARY 9, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA -Published "Death Row USA" updated to October 1, 2021
2,455 people on death row
JANUARY 27, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Capital Punishment, 2020 Statistics
Death Row Below 2,500 First Time in 29 Years
- JANUARY 9, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Guantánamo Bay, 20 years on
DECEMBER 29, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to July 1, 2021
Fewest Death-Sentenced Prisoners in Three Decades
DECEMBER 20, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 2021 Year End Report from the Death Penalty Information Center
11 executions and 18 new death sentences in 1 year
- DECEMBER 18, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 2021 Gallup Poll: Public Support for Capital Punishment Remains at Half-Century Low
OCTOBER 28, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of Death Row Usa
Updated to April 1, 2021
OCTOBER 21, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Azibo Aquart sentenced to life in prison
Death sentence overturned in 2018
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Homicides increased by 29% in 2020, the year of Covid, but also of Black Lives Matter.
2021 still increasing