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
JANUARY 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty
- JANUARY 17, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Feds won’t seek death penalty against Patrick Crusius
El Paso Walmart gunman accused of massacring 23 people
JANUARY 3, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. Amber McLaughlin executed on January 3
First known US execution of an openly transgender person
DECEMBER 16, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA DPIC 2022 Year End Report
22 death sentences and 18 executions in 2022
NOVEMBER 15, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Rasmussen Reports poll: 46% in favour of death penalty, 28% against, 26% abstentions
NOVEMBER 14, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gallup poll: 55% Support Death Penalty, 42% against, 3% abstentions.
- OCTOBER 23, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Sept. 11 Case Awaits Biden Administration’s Reply on Plea Deal
At Guantánamo Bay
OCTOBER 12, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Federal Bureau of Prisons denies transfer of John Fitzgerald Hanson
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 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 PENALTYUSA - 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