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At yearend 2021, 30 states and the federal government had death penalty statutes (map 1). In July 2021, Virginia abolished the state’s capital murder ofense (see Status of the death penalty in 2021), leaving a total of 20 states and the District of Columbia with no death penalty statute in force on December 31, 2021.
Three states – Delaware, New Hampshire, and Washington – still permit hanging. Four states – Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah, and South Carolina – allow for death by firing squads.
Dec 16, 2021 · Local polls released in 2021 in states considering abolition of capital punishment showed substantial and increasingly bipartisan support for repealing the death penalty and replacing it with non-capital alternatives.
Hover over a state on the map to learn its death penalty status and year of reinstatement or abolition. For more in-depth information on each state, click on the links below the map.
Oct 27, 2021 · 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...
Nov 17, 2023 · Among jurisdictions with prisoners under sentence of death at yearend 2021, 19 states and the BOP reported a decrease in the number of prisoners held under sentence of death, 8 states reported no change, and no states reported an increase in the number of prisoners held under sentence of death.
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Nov 1, 2023 · A total of 16 prisoners were received under sentence of death in 2021, one more than was reported in 2020. Twenty states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) removed a total of 84 prisoners from under sentence of death by means other than execution in 2021.
