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 22, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - In the Extreme: Women Serving Life Without Parole and Death Sentences
A report by the Alice Project
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Appeals Panel Overturns Army Judge’s Ruling on Torture
At the Guantánamo war cour
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. U.S. Supreme Court Stays Texas Execution of John Henry Ramirez
Agrees to Review Contours of the Right to Religious Exercise in the Execution Chamber
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to January 1, 2021
2,528 people on death rows
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Massachusetts 8th Graders Push to Exonerate Woman Sentenced to Death
In 1683, in Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
AUGUST 27, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. First opinion in favor of parole for Sirhan Sihran
Man who assassinated Robert F Kennedy
- JULY 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - DPIC 2021 Mid-Year Review
Continuing Record-Low Death Penalty Usage in First Half of Year
JULY 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Attorney General Merrick Garland suspends federal executions
"Not enough"
JUNE 25, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 'Capital Punishment 2019' Reports Number on Death Row Down
Average Time on Death Row Approaches 19 Years
JUNE 25, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pittsburgh synagogue requests no death penalty for Robert Bowers
Killer of 11 of its members
- JUNE 16, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - White House Reasserts Opposition to Death Penalty
After the controversy over the Tsarnaev case
- JUNE 15, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA Most atheists and agnostics oppose the death penalty
Unlike other U.S. religious groups