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State by State. The Death Penalty Information Center provides essential statistics like execution numbers, death row population, and murder rates for each state. We also provide historical background on the death penalty in each state, including abolitionist states.
View a US map that outlines current capital punishment legality by state, along with a table that details the history of each state's death penalty laws.
Although it is a legal penalty in 27 states, 19 of them have authority to execute death sentences, with the other 8, as well as the federal government and military, subject to moratoriums. As of 2023, of the 38 OECD member countries, only two (the United States and Japan) allow capital punishment. [3]
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...
Twenty-four states allow the death penalty. Twenty-three states have abolished capital punishment altogether. Three states, California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, have governor-issued moratoriums in place, halting executions in the state. Of those states to have abolished the death penalty, Michigan became the first state to abolish it in 1846.
Many states in the U.S. still impose the death penalty for capital offenses, including murder, treason, or genocide. Learn more about death penalty laws.
As of January 2023, the death penalty was legal in 27 states. In three of these states (California, Pennsylvania, and Oregon), the death penalty had been placed under a gubernatorial moratorium, though the laws providing for the death penalty in those states remained on the books.