Death Penalty Fast Facts
Facts
As of March 24, 2021, capital punishment is legal in 27 US states. Three of those states have governor-imposed moratoriums.
Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated by the US Supreme Court, states have executed 1,532 people (as of March 2021).
Since 1973, there have been 185 death row exonerations (as of March 2021). Thirty of them are from the state of Florida.
Federal Government
The US government and US military have 49 people awaiting execution as of 2021.
Females
Twenty-two individuals were executed between 1976 and 2005 for crimes committed as juveniles.
March 1, 2005 – Roper v. Simmons. The Supreme Court rules that the execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional.
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They Are Terminally Ill. States Want To Execute Them Anyway. “I don’t understand trying to kill somebody who is already dying,” says the sister of Idaho death-row prisoner Gerald Pizzuto. Filed 6:45 p.m. 05.06.2021 Gerald Pizzuto Jr., circa 2000. Courtesy of Bruce Livingston Gerald Pizzuto Jr., circa 2000. Courtesy of Bruce Livingston The death penalty is in flux. These are the stories that you need to know about capital punishment s past, as well as its uncertain future.
Gerald Pizzuto is near death, but it’s unclear whether the cancer or the state of Idaho will get to him first.
For more than a year, the 65-year-old has been in hospice care on Idaho’s death row, suffering from advanced bladder tumors, along with Type 2 diabetes, and a variety of heart and lung diseases. According to his defense team, he’s been prescribed 42 different drugs i