Capital punishment was outlawed in the State of New York after the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, declared in 2004 that as...

The U.S. state of Washington enforced capital punishment until the state's capital punishment statute was declared null and void and abolished in practice...

briefly abolished capital punishment with its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia. The State Electrician was contracted by the state at an unchanged rate...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Florida. Since 1976, the state has executed 105 convicted murderers, all at Florida State Prison...

capital punishment in New York in 1977. The name "Sing Sing" was derived from the Sintsink Native American tribe from whom the land was purchased in 1685...

In the U.S. state of California, capital punishment is not allowed to be carried out as of March 2019,[update] because executions were halted by an official...

be executed in New York state. Two years later New York state abolished capital punishment. The state would later reinstate the practice in 1995 using...

Capital punishment in New Jersey is currently abolished, after Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine signed a law repealing it in 2007. Before this, capital...

In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. It is also...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arizona. After the execution of Joseph Wood in 2014, executions were temporarily suspended...