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United States, Northern America (North America)
2994 Number of Individuals Currently Under Sentence of Death
2017 Year of Last Known Execution
23 Number of Executions in 2017
20 Number of Executions in 2016
28 Number of Executions in 2015
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Death penalty law status:
Retentionist
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Method(s) of execution:
Hanging, Shooting, Lethal Injection, Other
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Party to the ICCPR
Yes
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Party to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
No
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Party to the American Convention on Human Rights
No
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Party to the Death Penalty Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights
No
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UN 2012 moratorium resolution: cosponsor
No
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UN 2012 moratorium resolution: vote
Against
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UN 2012 moratorium resolution: Signed the Note Verbale of Dissociation
No
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Does the country have a mandatory death penalty?
No
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Is there currently an official moratorium on executions within the country?
Unclear
- Source: Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law
- Last updated: 9 March 2014
- Other Countries
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Iran (Islamic Republic of) |
506 executions in 2017
Geographical region Asia (South-central Asia)
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Maldives |
0 executions in 2017
Geographical region Asia (South-central Asia)
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- Member organizations
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- American Friends Service Committee
- California People of Faith
- Campaign to End the Death Penalty
- Catholic Mobilizing Network
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Cornell Center on Death Penalty Worldwide
- CURE
- Death Penalty Focus
- Equal Justice USA
- Human Rights Watch
- Journey of Hope… From Violence to Healing
- Kids Against the Death Penalty
- Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment
- Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights (MVFHR)
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
- National Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty (NCADP)
- National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
- New Hampshire Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NHCADP)
- People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
- Save Anthony
- The Advocates for Human Rights
- The Sunny Center Foundation
- Themis Fund / The 8th Amendment Project
- Witness to Innocence
- Keywords
- Fair Trial International law Public debate Right to life Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment Innocence Homosexuality Arbitrariness Death Row Conditions Mandatory Death Penalty Sentencing Alternatives Methods of Execution Lethal Injection Hanging Electrocution World Coalition Against the Death Penalty Death Penalty
- Focus on
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World Day
15th World Day Against the Death Penalty: Poverty
On 10 October 2017, the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty aims at raising awareness about the reasons why people living in poverty are at a greater risk of being sentenced to death and executed.
