Capital punishment was outlawed in the State of New York after the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in the state) declared it was not allowed...

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...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Japan. In practice, it is applied only for aggravated murder, but the current Penal Code and several laws list...

until the United States Supreme Court briefly abolished capital punishment with its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia. The State Electrician was contracted...

Capital punishment was abolished in the U.S. state of New Mexico in 2009. The law replaced the death penalty for the most serious crimes with life imprisonment...

Capital punishment in Islam is traditionally regulated by the Islamic law (sharīʿa), which derived from the Quran, ḥadīth literature, and sunnah (accounts...

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...

Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Tennessee. When the prosecution seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous...

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...

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

conducted by The New York Times in 2014 found the death penalty retained widespread support in Chinese society. Capital punishment is used in most East Asian...

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...

In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at...

Capital punishment in traditional Jewish law has been defined in Codes of Jewish law dating back to medieval times, based on a system of oral laws contained...

Capital punishment in Connecticut formerly existed as an available sanction for a criminal defendant upon conviction for the commission of a capital offense...

Capital punishment in the Soviet Union was a legal penalty for most of the country's existence. The claimed legal basis for capital punishment was Article...

Capital punishment has been repealed in the U.S. state of Illinois since 2011. Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. The last...

Capital punishment in Delaware was abolished after being declared unconstitutional by the Delaware Supreme Court on August 2, 2016. The ruling retroactively...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Russia but is not used due to a moratorium and no death sentences or executions have been carried out since 2...

Washington enforced capital punishment until the state's capital punishment statute was declared null and void and abolished in practice by a state Supreme...

Capital punishment, more commonly known as the death penalty, was a legal form of punishment from 1620 to 1984 in Massachusetts, United States. This practice...

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...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Nebraska. In 2015, the state legislature voted to repeal the death penalty, overriding governor...

Sing Correctional Facility. Capital punishment was reinstated in New York in 1995 when Governor George Pataki signed a new statute into law, which provided...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Montana. The state has not carried out an execution in over seventeen years, with its last...

Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. In some years, its...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for...

Capital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries in their history. It is a legal punishment...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Nevada. There have been no executions in Nevada since 2006, in part because of a shortage of...