The relationship between race and capital punishment in the United States has been studied extensively. As of 2014, 42 percent of those on death row in...

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...

The debate over capital punishment in the United States existed as early as the colonial period. As of April 2022, it remains a legal penalty within 28...

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...

legally in the United States of America from before the nation's birth, up to 1972 when the United States Supreme Court found capital punishment to be in violation...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio, although all executions have been suspended indefinitely by Governor Mike DeWine until...

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...

certain forms of aggravated murder in the United States. Some jurisdictions that provide for death as a possible punishment for murder, such as California...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual...

Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three...