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 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 21, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Life Without Parole Is A Death Sentence With Fewer Legal Protections
56,000 people serving life-without-parole sentences
MAY 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 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 PENALTYUSA - 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 PENALTYUSA - Launch of a new website
The Death Penalty Photography Project
MARCH 22, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYBusiness Executives Launch Campaign Against the Death Penalty
Richard Branson and Arianna Huffington lead the initiative
MARCH 6, 2021ItalyDEATH PENALTYHands off Cain - Comparison between the United States and Italy
speaking at the conference "La Storia di Greg"
- FEBRUARY 28, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Juvenile Life Without Parole
1.465 people are serving JLWOP