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State by State. The Death Penalty Information Center provides essential statistics like execution numbers, death row population, and murder rates for each state. We also provide historical background on the death penalty in each state, including abolitionist states.
In the United States, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) is a legal penalty in 27 states, throughout the country at the federal level, and in American Samoa. [b][1] It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses.
View a US map that outlines current capital punishment legality by state, along with a table that details the history of each state's death penalty laws.
Twenty-three states have abolished capital punishment altogether. Three states, California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, have governor-issued moratoriums in place, halting executions in the state. Of those states to have abolished the death penalty, Michigan became the first state to abolish it in 1846. Virginia officially abolished the death ...
Twenty-four states allow the death penalty, 23 don’t and three have a moratorium on it, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center. About half the states permit capital...
As of January 2023, the death penalty was legal in 27 states. In three of these states (California, Pennsylvania, and Oregon), the death penalty had been placed under a gubernatorial moratorium, though the laws providing for the death penalty in those states remained on the books.
In 2021, all 30 states with a death penalty statute authorized lethal injection as a method of execution (table 4). Fourteen states also authorized an alternative method of execution: electrocution (8 states), firing squad (4), lethal gas (3), nitrogen hypoxia (3), and hanging (2).
This report presents statistics on prisoners who were under sentence of death in 2021, a summary of state and federal death penalty laws in 2021, and historical trends in executions.
states without the death penalty (23) In addition, the District of Columbia has abolished the death penalty. For more information about Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, see the notes below.
This report presents statistics on prisoners who were under sentence of death in 2021, a summary of state and federal death penalty laws in 2021, and historical trends in executions.