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Map of Death Penalty State statutes in the United States Blue: No current death penalty statute; Orange: Death penalty statute declared unconstitutional; Yellow: No one executed since 1976; Red: Has performed execution since 1976; Note: New Mexico's death penalty statute was repealed on March 18, 2009, but did not apply to inmates on death row ...
If the state has no death penalty, the judge must choose a state with the death penalty for carrying out the execution. The federal government has a facility (at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute ) and regulations only for executions by lethal injection, but the United States Code allows U.S. Marshals to use state facilities and employees for ...
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Updated New Hampshire as it never carried out a lethal injection before the death penalty was abolished in 2019. This state therefore goes from green to dark blue. 06:25, 27 March 2021: 945 × 593 (92 KB) Awesomeness95: Updated Virginia. 04:13, 15 July 2020: 945 × 593 (95 KB) Fluffy89502: update: 07:42, 6 December 2018: 945 × 593 (78 KB) Daviddwd
At yearend 2010, the death penalty was authorized by 36 states and the federal government (table 1). While New Mexico repealed the death penalty in 2009 (Laws 2009, ch. 11 § 5), the repeal was not retroactive. As of December 31, 2010, New Mexico held two men under previously imposed death sentences, and one person was awaiting sentencing
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The state modelled its policy after Florida’s in the 1970s. It was originally envisioned as a way to bar juries from overusing the death penalty. Florida’s statute was struck down by the US ...
Among the 27 states that still have the death penalty on the books, though, 14 have not carried out any executions in the past decade, according to CNN’s analysis of DPIC data.