Todesstrafe in den Vereinigten Staaten

[California may have its first death sentence in decades](https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/10/06/jurors-weighing-life-in-prison-or-death-penalty-for-banning-gang-member-who-admitted-murdering-5-people/)

Michigan was the first jurisdiction in the English speaking world to abolish capital punishment. 

That’s actually way more death penalty than I thought

ETA not all of us are American, my sincerest apologies to whoever did not like my audacity to not know the amount of death penalty states in a foreign country

The federal death penalty is still in force in all 50 states, so the map isn’t entirely accurate.

I haven’t looked through the list extensively, but it’s hard to find someone on death row that doesn’t deserve it

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_death_row_inmates_in_the_United_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_death_row_inmates_in_the_United_States)

Americans luvvvv killin people.

This is also a map of Western Democracies who have the Death Penalty ….

[I don’t include Belarus as a Western Democracy]

Just a reminder to my fellow Americans living in green states on this map-

The death penalty is not a deterrent. It is MORE expensive to sentence someone to death than life in prison. It is psychologically harmful for innocent people who work in the system (lawyers, judges, COs, wardens, clergy, family members of both the victim and the offenders, etc.). It has been used on people who have been exonerated as innocent after their death. It is racially, socioeconomically, and educationally biased. That’s even setting aside any moral issues one might have with the state deciding who lives and who dies.

There is no reason to continue using the death penalty!

Colorado still has death penalty by hanging in some counties for cattle rustling. It hasnt been enforced for quite some time, but its on the books.