There were the original 13 states, although the death penalty was established in the US long before the US was a separate nation.
Currently 31 sates have it and currently over 2 000 inmates are on death row. Not including those such as Charles Manson who (due to 1976 illegilisation of the death penalty, and later reinstatement) were given a life sentence.
Draco
The prisons were badly run and would carry the death penalty for many prisoners.
Only two states in the U.S. allow citizens to directly vote on public issuses.
Including those states with moratoriums, how many states currently have the death penalty?
Currently, thirty two states enforce the death penalty. In addition, there are eighteen states that have abolished the death penalty.
Five of them
The death penalty is legal in 32 U.S. states. In the United States, 1,386 people have been executed.
There were the original 13 states, although the death penalty was established in the US long before the US was a separate nation.
Currently 31 sates have it and currently over 2 000 inmates are on death row. Not including those such as Charles Manson who (due to 1976 illegilisation of the death penalty, and later reinstatement) were given a life sentence.
There is no game called 'Pro Death Penalty'. Instead it is a movement that tries to promote and support the death penalty which has been abolished in many States.
35 of 50 or 70 percent
SOME states have passed legislaion outlawing the death penalty. Many, including the Federal Government, have not.
I'm not going to go back that far. As October 2009 35 states had the death penalty still on their books. !5 states plus the District of Columbia - did not.
The United States is the only western nation that still uses capital punishment. The United States, Japan and Taiwan are the only fully developed countries that still engage in this practice.It is important to note that, while the US Supreme Court currently considers capital punishment constitutional, many states do not. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have formally abolished the death penalty; New York has declared part of their capital punishment statute unconstitutional, and is not engaging in this practice; thirty-five states still allow the death penalty for certain crimes, but vary in frequency of use.AnswerIf by Western countries you mean industrialized democracies, then only The United States of America, Japan and Taiwan currently use the death penalty. In the USA 36 states, the federal government and the U.S. military have a death penalty statute. As of now South Korea has a moratorium on the death penalty.
There have been almost 1300 executions via the death penalty in the United States. About 1264 of these executions have been since 1974.