United States 2021
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News on United States in 2021
DECEMBER 31, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Penalty Information Center: Year End Report 2021
Virginia abolishes, 11 executions, 19 new death sentences
DECEMBER 29, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to July 1, 2021
Fewest Death-Sentenced Prisoners in Three Decades
DECEMBER 20, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 2021 Year End Report from the Death Penalty Information Center
11 executions and 18 new death sentences in 1 year
DECEMBER 18, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 2021 Gallup Poll: Public Support for Capital Punishment Remains at Half-Century Low
OCTOBER 28, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of Death Row Usa
Updated to April 1, 2021
OCTOBER 21, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Azibo Aquart sentenced to life in prison
Death sentence overturned in 2018
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - In the Extreme: Women Serving Life Without Parole and Death Sentences
A report by the Alice Project
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Homicides increased by 29% in 2020, the year of Covid, but also of Black Lives Matter.
2021 still increasing
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Appeals Panel Overturns Army Judge’s Ruling on Torture
At the Guantánamo war cour
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. U.S. Supreme Court Stays Texas Execution of John Henry Ramirez
Agrees to Review Contours of the Right to Religious Exercise in the Execution Chamber
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Published the latest edition of "Death Row USA" updated to January 1, 2021
2,528 people on death rows
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Massachusetts 8th Graders Push to Exonerate Woman Sentenced to Death
In 1683, in Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
AUGUST 27, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. First opinion in favor of parole for Sirhan Sihran
Man who assassinated Robert F Kennedy
- JULY 21, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Retires
JULY 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Attorney General Merrick Garland suspends federal executions
"Not enough"
JULY 1, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC 2021 Mid-Year Review
Continuing Record-Low Death Penalty Usage in First Half of Year
JUNE 25, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 'Capital Punishment 2019' Reports Number on Death Row Down
Average Time on Death Row Approaches 19 Years
JUNE 25, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pittsburgh synagogue requests no death penalty for Robert Bowers
Killer of 11 of its members
- JUNE 16, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - White House Reasserts Opposition to Death Penalty
After the controversy over the Tsarnaev case
JUNE 15, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden’s Death Penalty Reversal in the Boston Bomber Case
Follows in Trump's footsteps
JUNE 15, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA Most atheists and agnostics oppose the death penalty
Unlike other U.S. religious groups
JUNE 9, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gerald Marshall's second message
From Texas' death row
- JUNE 2, 2021United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 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 PENALTY
USA - 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