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NOTE: [Brackets] around a state indicate that the state authorizes the listed method as an alternative method if other methods are found to be unconstitutional or are unavailable/impractical. Click on the state to obtain specific information about the methods authorized.
Many of the former methods combine execution with torture, often intending to make a spectacle of pain and suffering with overtones of sadism, cruelty, intimidation, and dehumanisation, at times aimed at attempting to deter the commission of offences.
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…
Today, every state that has the death penalty authorizes execution by lethal injection. When this method is used, the condemned person is usually bound to a gurney and a member of the execution team positions several heart monitors on this skin. Two needles (one is a back-up) are then inserted into usable veins, usually in the prisoner’s arms.
Following the release of the Amnesty International annual death penalty report, we take a look at five widely used execution methods.
Below, find the methods of execution used globally in 2022, as well as which methods of execution are legal in each of the U.S. states and how often each was used between 1977 (when executions resumed after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the death penalty nationally) and 2019.
Death Penalty Worldwide’s analysis of the different methods of execution used around the world, with bibliographical references and case law - part of a series of International Legal Issues
This section explores international perspectives on the death penalty, contrasting the prevalence and methods of execution in different countries. A consideration of global trends in the abolition or retention of the death penalty provides valuable insights into the broader context of the debate.
In the state that abolished death penalty or where its statute was declared unconstitutional, people sentenced to death for a crime before the date of the abolition may retroactively be subjected to death penalty.
The term death penalty is sometimes used interchangeably with capital punishment, though imposition of the penalty is not always followed by execution (even when it is upheld on appeal), because of the possibility of commutation to life imprisonment.