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Death Penalty Information Mockup

  • Seventy percent of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, including 36 since 2000.
  • 32 states, plus the federal government and the military, have a death penalty statute on their books. eighteen states do not. New York’s death penalty statute was struck down by its state supreme court on procedural grounds in 2004 and it has not been replaced. New Jersey repealed its death penalty in 2007, New Mexico followed suit in 2009, Illinois in 2011, Connecticut in 2012, Maryland in 2013. The Nebraska legislature repealed its death penalty in 2015, but a ballot measure struck down the ban in 2016.

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