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
- OCTOBER 2, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. The Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a judge's finding that Paul Storey should be resentenced to life in prison
USA - Texas. The Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a judge's finding that Paul Storey should be resentenced to life in prison
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA: FORMER GUANTÁNAMO OFFICIALS BLAST WASTE AND MISMANAGEMENT AS COSTS TO TAXPAYERS TOP $6 BILLION
As U.S. taxpayers pick up a tab of more than $6 billion and climbing, former top officials involved in the military commission death-penalty cases against Guantánamo Bay detainees have blasted the military tribunals for waste, mismanagement, and ineffecti
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Guantánamo Costed To Taxpayers More than $6 Billion.
USA - Guantánamo Costed To Taxpayers More than $6 Billion.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA: TRIAL FOR MEN CHARGED WITH PLOTTING SEPT. 11 ATTACKS IS SET FOR 2021
A military judge on Friday set Jan. 11, 2021, as the start of the joint death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four men charged as plotters of the attacks that killed 2,976 people in New York, Washington and a Pennsylvania fie
- AUGUST 30, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Trial for Men Charged With Plotting Sept. 11 Attacks Is Set for 2021.
USA - Trial for Men Charged With Plotting Sept. 11 Attacks Is Set for 2021.
- AUGUST 16, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Jewish Congregations Ask Not to Seek Death Penalty in Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting.
USA - Jewish Congregations Ask Not to Seek Death Penalty in Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting.
- JULY 30, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA: EVERY TOP 2020 DEMOCRAT SUPPORTS ENDING THE DEATH PENALTY
A few hours after the Trump administration announced it was bringing back federal executions, former vice president and 2020 candidate Joe Biden had a single message: abolish the death penalty.
- JULY 25, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal Government Announces New Execution Protocol, Sets Five Execution Dates.
USA - Federal Government Announces New Execution Protocol, Sets Five Execution Dates.
- JULY 23, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Every top 2020 Democrat supports ending the death penalty.
USA - Every top 2020 Democrat supports ending the death penalty.
- JULY 23, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - BJS Releases “Capital Punishment, 2017”.
USA - BJS Releases “Capital Punishment, 2017”.
JULY 11, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTYSPRING 2019 ‘DEATH ROW USA’ DOCUMENTS FURTHER SHRINKING OF U.S. DEATH-ROW POPULATION
The number of people on death row or facing capital resentencing in the United States has continued its 19-year decline, according to a new death-row census by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF).
- JULY 10, 2019United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Spring 2019 “Death Row USA” as of April 1, 2019
USA - Spring 2019 “Death Row USA” as of April 1, 2019