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
NOVEMBER 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Prisoners off death row protest transfer to supermax lockup
NOVEMBER 6, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions
NOVEMBER 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gallup poll: 52% of Americans in favor of the death penalty. 41% amongst younger Americans
OCTOBER 10, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Jose Soto-Escalera sentenced to death
SEPTEMBER 20, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urge judge to block death penalty
Because of actions that had violated his due process rights
SEPTEMBER 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - What’s Behind the Execution Surge of 2025?
SEPTEMBER 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - A Conservative against the death penalty
Demetrius Minor, director of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty
AUGUST 26, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump Calls for Death Penalty in All D.C. Murder Cases
Washington D.C. abolished death penalty in 1981
AUGUST 16, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - It is increasingly clear that the Guantanamo trials are impossible
The families of the victims are now resigned to this fact
AUGUST 1, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida Derrick Clay sentenced to death
JULY 28, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Study: Do All Religions Support the Death Penalty?
JULY 23, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ronald Tabak, a pillar of the fight against the death penalty in the United States, has died