United States
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 16
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 47
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The pace of USA executions is on the rise, pushed by...
- News items in the archive
- 1,047
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
United States is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 16 executions in the country, against 47 the year before. The archive holds 1,047 news items on United States, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- NOVEMBER 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 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
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 PENALTY
USA - What’s Behind the Execution Surge of 2025?
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 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
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
JULY 21, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Do all victims’ family members support the death penalty?
- JULY 10, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Mid-Year Review: New Death Sentences Low, Increase in Executions
Death Penalty Information Center analysis
- JULY 9, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Catholic Church and capital punishment in the United States
Austin Sarat, Amherst College (Massachusetts)
- JULY 8, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - ACLU Report Shows How Death Penalty Jury Selection Discriminates
Against Black Americans, Women, and People of Faith
- JUNE 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Firing squad, electric chair, nitrogen gas, injection: US expands execution methods
MAY 31, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump pardons Larry Hoover, notorious drug kingpins
Even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric
MAY 25, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Rev. Jeff Hood nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Has witnessed 9 executions
- MAY 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Victims’ Families Remain Divided on Federal Death Penalty
MAY 2, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYUSA - Illinois. Former Gov. George Ryan Dies at 91
He cleared death row in 2003
MAY 2, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Spring 2025
2067 persons on death row as April 1, 2025
APRIL 29, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo's Prosecutors will appeal the torture decision
although they lost a similar appeal this year
APRIL 17, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Who are the death row executioners?
Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers
- APRIL 11, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture
The case of Ammar al-Baluchi
- APRIL 1, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
In UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing
MARCH 28, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide
MARCH 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Does the “minor age” really end at 18?
What Experts are Saying About Emerging Adult Behavioral Development
- MARCH 11, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - New report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025
Nearly 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S.
- MARCH 11, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri Signs Plea Offer
One of the guantamo trials. The unknown of political reaction
- FEBRUARY 21, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Will Luigi Mangione face death penalty?
- FEBRUARY 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - ‘Warden, I am ready’: documentary on the death penalty as seen from the point of view of a victim's son