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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.
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.
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.
Yes, Texas had the death penalty in 1963. At that time, the state employed various methods for executions, including electrocution. The death penalty was a legal form of punishment in Texas, as it was in many states across the United States during that era. However, the use of the death penalty has undergone significant changes in Texas and nationwide since then.
As of October 2009, 35 states use the death penalty, although not all states use it frequently.For a list of states that use capital punishment, see Related Questions, below.
There have been almost 1300 executions via the death penalty in the United States. About 1264 of these executions have been since 1974.
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