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The geographic distribution of capital punishment in the United States has a strong correlation with the history of slavery and lynchings. [7] States where slavery was legal before the Civil War also saw high numbers of lynchings after the Civil War and into the 20th century.
List of people executed in Alabama; List of people executed in Arizona; List of people executed in Arkansas; List of people executed in California; List of people executed in Colorado
The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Arthur Gooch: Hanging Kidnapping June 19, 1936 Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma The only person executed under the Federal Kidnapping Act in which the victim did not die. Earl Gardner Hanging
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1] [2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [3] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence , and the act of carrying out the sentence is known ...
List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976; List of death row inmates in the United States who have exhausted their appeals
Capital punishment has been abolished in New Hampshire, but only for new sentences. One prisoner (Michael Addison) who was already sentenced to death remains on death row in the state. States and the date of abolition of capital punishment: Michigan (1846; abolished for murder, retained for treason until 1963) Wisconsin (1853) Maine (1887 ...
This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row but later found to be wrongly convicted.Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously. [1]
Capital punishment in Washington, D.C. (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Capital punishment in the United States" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.