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 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis
- JANUARY 6, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Why Does the United States Bother to Impose Death Sentences?
Editorial by Professor Austin Sarat, Amherst College
DECEMBER 31, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Clemency for 15 death row prisoners
DECEMBER 30, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Military Appeals Court Rules 9/11 Defendants Can Plead to Avoid Death Sentences
DECEMBER 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - List of 37 commuted by Biden
- DECEMBER 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Biden commutes 37 of the 40 federal death sentences
Before Trump can resume executions
DECEMBER 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA: Biden commutes 37 of 40 federal death sentences
President Joe Biden announced on December 23 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.
DECEMBER 19, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - “The Death Penalty in 2024: Year End Report”
25 executions, 26 new death sentences
- DECEMBER 13, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people
For non-violent crimes
DECEMBER 9, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pope Francis and many others urge Biden to commute all federal death sentences
- NOVEMBER 27, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Biden Contemplates Federal Commutation Requests
Clemency to the 40 men currently on federal death row
NOVEMBER 26, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 9/11 Victim’s Daughter Writes Why She Supports Plea Deals for Perpetrators
Chanel Shum was starting preschool when her father was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks