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 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - BJS released its latest report for the year 2021
2,382 people were under sentence of death in 2021
NOVEMBER 13, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.S. Army Overturns the 1917 Convictions of 110 Black Soldiers
That Resulted in the Execution of 19
- NOVEMBER 6, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - POLL: Americans Believe the Death Penalty Is Applied Unfairly
- OCTOBER 24, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Use of Nitrogen Hypoxia Could Endanger Spiritual Advisors and Prison Staff
Upcpming execution in Alabama
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Military. Ramzi Bin al Shibh formally deeclared incompetent
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pharmaceutical multinationals further restrict lethal injections
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA – MILITARY: TOP MILITARY COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR EX-SOLDIER WHO KILLED 13 IN MASS SHOOTING AT TEXAS BASE
A top military appellate court has upheld the death sentence given to a former Army officer who killed more than a dozen people in a mass shooting 14 years ago at one of the largest bases in the country.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Military. Death penalty upheld for Nidal Hasan
Who killed 13 in base shooting
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden rejects some plea deal conditions for 9/11 suspects
They could still escape death penalty
- AUGUST 23, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Plea negotiations could mean 9/11 defendants will not face the death penalty
The Pentagon has advised families of some of the thousands killed
- AUGUST 20, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - New Restorative Justice Webpage
DPIC explains the basics of restorative justice
AUGUST 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo. Judge Acosta Throws Out Confession of Suspect as Derived From Torture
AUGUST 3, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. U.S. District Judge Robert Colville imposed the death sentence on Robert Bowers
- AUGUST 1, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal. Jury Sentence Robert Bowers to Death
For 2018 Synagogue Shooting
JULY 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Joe Biden is breaking his promise to end the federal death penalty
JULY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The Czech Republic will extradite a Georgian national over a plot to kill Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad
JULY 13, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal death penalty ban reintroduced in Congress
- JUNE 21, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 70 Years After Their Executions, Rosenberg Sons Still Looking to Clear Mother’s Name
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed on June 19, 1953 for espionage
JUNE 14, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 122,840 people in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails
Why Counting Everyone in Solitary Confinement Matters
MAY 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Summer 2022 Report: 2,394 on death row
MAY 18, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Dakota (Federal). Life in prison for Alfonso Rodriguez
MAY 17, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal. Sayfullo Saipov formally sentenced to 10 life sentences
APRIL 12, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - More topics on the DPIC’s website
Race, conditions of confinement, and executions
APRIL 3, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - One-time supporter of Guantánamo's military court now says it was 'doomed'
Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson
MARCH 30, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Senate OKs SB 450, easier path to imposing death penalty
- MARCH 16, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - North Dakota. Federal prosecutors will not seek death for Alfonso Rodriguez
- MARCH 13, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Sayfullo Saipov sentenced to life in prison without parole
- JANUARY 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - US Indicts Three In Iran-Backed Plot To Kill Masih Alinejad
A U.S. journalist of Iranian origin now living in New York
JANUARY 26, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Family Members of Murder Victims Call on North Carolina, Nevada to Commute States’ Death Rows
- JANUARY 20, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 300 organizations send letter to Biden to end death penalty