United States
2026
- 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 27, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - In the United States, more than 200,000 people are serving life sentences
study by the Sentencing Project
FEBRUARY 26, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal Bureau of Prisons Sanitized Execution Reports
Omitting Disturbing Details Observed by Media Witnesses
FEBRUARY 24, 2021United NationsDEATH PENALTYU.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.
FEBRUARY 18, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC Adds Eleven Cases to Innocence List
185 death-row exoneration from 1973 to today
FEBRUARY 15, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal Executions Were Likely COVID Superspreader Events
Associated Press Finds
FEBRUARY 9, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. Christopher Williams Released From Prison After Being Cleared of Another Murder
In 1989 he was charged with 6 murders, none of which he committed
FEBRUARY 3, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Nearly 1 Million Dollar for Each Federal Execution
financial records recently obtained by the ACLU
JANUARY 26, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Criminal Justice Leaders Urge Biden To End Death Penalty
as 40 members of Congress already did
- JANUARY 19, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal. Death sentence tossed for Kenneth Eugene Barrett
for deficient legal representation
JANUARY 16, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. Corey Johnson died an "excruciatingly painful death"
felt like drowning for 20 minutes
JANUARY 16, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA Dustin Higgs was executed at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana
He was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m. EST on January 16.
- JANUARY 14, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal. Corey Johnson was executed
lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana