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5 days ago · General Death Penalty Links Updates are available for at least 2 weeks. This information along with other death penalty information is archived at the Abolish archive site.
Nov 17, 2017 · This page is updated each business day by 12 pm Eastern Time. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
Jul 17, 2024 · The Alameda County District Attorney’s office on Tuesday announced the resentencing of two death row inmates amid an ongoing ordered review of dozens of death penalty cases to determine whether ...
Jan 26, 2024 · Alabama will be allowed to put Smith to death with nitrogen gas, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, refusing to block what would be the nation’s first execution by a new method since 1982.
Jul 1, 2024 · DEATH PENALTY CENSUS. Oct 19, 2023. New Resource: Updated Death Penalty Census. DPIC’s database of more than 9, 800 death sentences imposed between the Supreme Court ruling striking down U.S. death penalty laws in 1972 and January 1, 2022 details the systemic arbitrariness, bias, and error of the modern U.S. death penalty ...
Feb 27, 2024 · Abraham Bonowitz, director of Death Penalty Action, which advocates for abolishing capital punishment, said Biden has “not done or said anything” to make good on his 2020 pledge but acknowledged that the president’s attempting to do so now “doesn’t help him” politically.
The lack of clear steps toward abolishing the death penalty or clearing federal death row using executive authority would leave to the door open to a future pro-death penalty president once against resuming executions by the U.S. government.
