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Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) — A state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, is not required to compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990) — Mandatory appellate review is not required in death penalty cases.
The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106 ...
Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...
The administration, which put a moratorium on federal executions, pursued a death sentence in the case of Islamic State attacker Sayfullo Saipov, for a 2017 attack in New York that killed eight ...
List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976; List of death row inmates in the United States who have exhausted their appeals
Other recent death penalty cases clouded by doubts. Similar situations unfolded in two other capital punishment cases in the last three weeks alone, with one ending in an execution despite ...