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USA still has the death penalty?



The most recent execution by the federal government was 2021, after a gap of 17 years. A lot depends on who is president.


That sounded unbelievable, but Wikipedia supports it[0]. Last US federal execution in 2003-03-18 was followed by 2020-07-14. The first person executed in 2020 had been on death row for 21 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_by_the...


It sounds unbelievable because its not correct[0]:

>Number of executions

>2025 —

>2024 5

>2023 24

>Total 29

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_t...


Those are executions by states, not by the U.S. federal government.


It’s the united _states_, not the federal america


Yes, it does.

But criminal justice in the US is mostly dispensed at the state level of government, and many of the 50 states do not ever impose the death penalty:

https://dpic-cdn.org/production/images/StatesWithWithoutDP-M...




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