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
JUNE 15, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden’s Death Penalty Reversal in the Boston Bomber Case
Follows in Trump's footsteps
JUNE 9, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gerald Marshall's second message
From Texas' death row
JUNE 2, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Jury Hands Down Death Penalty For William Reece
- MAY 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Why a few counties generate most of the death sentences
“Learning to kill", by Frank R. Baumgartner
APRIL 19, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Sonia Sotomayor’s Lonely Battle at the Supreme Court
To Give the Voiceless a Voice
APRIL 16, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Senators Urge Biden To Shut Down Guantánamo
Calling It A 'Symbol Of Lawlessness'
- APRIL 9, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Republican-led states secretly spending huge sums on execution drugs
In Arizona, Tennessee and Missouri
APRIL 4, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Military. 40 detainees remained in Guantanamo.
Camp 7 shut down and locked
- MARCH 28, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Launch of a new website
The Death Penalty Photography Project
- MARCH 22, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Business Executives Launch Campaign Against the Death Penalty
Richard Branson and Arianna Huffington lead the initiative
- FEBRUARY 26, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal Bureau of Prisons Sanitized Execution Reports
Omitting Disturbing Details Observed by Media Witnesses
- FEBRUARY 24, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
U.N. RIGHTS BOSS WELCOMES BIDEN STANCE AGAINST DEATH PENALTY
The U.N. human rights chief on 23 February 2021 welcomed a pledge by U.S. President Joe Biden to work towards abolishing the death penalty in the United States.