United States 2024
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on United States in 2024
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
NOVEMBER 18, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gallup poll: 53% of Americans in favor of the death penalty
The number masks considerable differences between older and younger Americans
NOVEMBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump wants to expand death penalty
For child rapists, immigrants who kill U.S. citizens, human traffickers and drug dealers
NOVEMBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeals plea
For the September 11 defendants
NOVEMBER 10, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo. Military Judge Postpones Guilty Plea Proceedings in Sept. 11 Case
- NOVEMBER 7, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Plea deals revived for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 2 co-defendants
No death penalty for Sept. 11 attacks
NOVEMBER 7, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden Urged To Prevent Death Row Execution Spree Under Trump
- OCTOBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Trump insists on the death penalty for drug dealers
As suggested to him by Chinese leader Xi Jinping
OCTOBER 10, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - A new documentary, “Rebel Nun,” tells the story of Sister Helen Prejan
40 years against the death penalty
OCTOBER 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Last Week America Carried Out Its 1,600th Execution Since 1976.
When Will the Madness Stop?
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Rulings for 2 Death-Sentenced Prisoners Recognize Devastating Harm Caused by Solitary Confinement
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Richard Branson and 350 business leaders renew call to end death penalty
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 3 Americans and 34 Others Sentenced to Death in Congo
On Coup Charges
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - The Defense Secretary Revoked a Plea Deal in the 9/11 Case. Or Did He?
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Central Park 5 are exonerated. Trump doesn't seem to think so
- AUGUST 22, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Exonerated members of Central Park 5 warn about Trump at Democratic convention
AUGUST 16, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump and Harris records on criminal justice policy
- AUGUST 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - U.S. defense secretary rejects plea deal for 9/11 mastermind
Puts death penalty back on table
JULY 31, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Accused Sept. 11 Plotters Agree to Plead Guilty at Guantánamo Bay
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi
JULY 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Larry Roberts Becomes the 200th Person Exonerated from Death Row
JULY 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC Releases Report on Politicization of the Death Penalty