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
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTYUSA - 3 Americans and 34 Others Sentenced to Death in Congo
On Coup Charges
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 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 PENALTYUSA - 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
- JUNE 16, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Activists ask Biden to commute all federal death sentences
Trump could execute 40 prisoners in second term 'bloodbath'
JUNE 6, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Maryland. Kenneth J. Lighty gets 2 life sentences at resentencing
Federal sentence
- MAY 28, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Guantánamo prosecutors accused of “outrageous” misconduct
For trying to use torture testimony
MAY 8, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Events in the Lives of Women on U.S. Death Row
Article of New Cardozo Law Review
- MAY 7, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Under 1% of Catholics follow the Pope on abortion, death penalty, euthanasia
- MAY 6, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - America’s prison system is turning into a de facto nursing home
More and more older people are spending their dying years behind bars
MAY 6, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Lethal drugs source of 2020/21 federal executions confirmed
Connecticut-based "Absolute Standards Inc."
MAY 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal prosecutors won't challenge Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeal case
Boston Marathon bomber
- MAY 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - (Military). Sept. 11 Trial Plea Negotiations Still Underway at Guantánamo Bay
APRIL 22, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Prosecutor Says Sept. 11 Suspects Can Be Held Past War Crimes Sentence
APRIL 16, 2024AustraliaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Binding Assurances that Julian Assange Will Not Face the Death Penalty
APRIL 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump calls for cop killers to get ‘mandatory’ death sentence
in wake of slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller
MARCH 25, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The National Registry of Exonerations published its 2023 report
153 exonerations last year, 4 from death row
MARCH 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Top US Nitrogen Gas Producers Ban Use in Executions
- MARCH 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN UNION - Statement on the latest executions in US
FEBRUARY 29, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 61 botched executions since 1977
The last one yesterday, in Idaho, against Thomas Creech
FEBRUARY 24, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Suggests Children Should Watch Public Executions
- JANUARY 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Dissent rises against looming ‘experimental’ execution of Kenneth Smith
JANUARY 12, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.S. to Seek Death for Payton Gendron
Biden thus contradicts his electoral promises
DECEMBER 7, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC 2023 Year End Report
24 executions and 21 new death sentences in 2023
DECEMBER 4, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Innocence Project helped exonerate 9 people in 2023
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