When the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution Dec. 15 to establish a worldwide “moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty,” the United States continued its practice of voting against it.
Advocates displeased with U.S. vote against global death penalty ban
Oregon commutations, Oklahoma scheduling pace key death penalty report
Counterbalancing Oregon’s move was Oklahoma’s effort to execute 25 death-row inmates in a 29-month span.
Dobbs decision dominates Supreme Court’s year
The court’s ruling said there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States, immediately bringing all abortion policy decisions to the state level and prompting state ballot measures on abortion in the November election.
In wide swaths of U.S., death sentences, executions are no longer imposed
“The death penalty is eroding everywhere in the United States, even in places that are still seeking to carry out executions,” said Robert Dunham.
Advocates, editorials call on Biden to end federal death penalty
The death penalty still exists in 27 states and about 50 prisoners are currently on federal death row.
Governor signs death penalty repeal at site of 101 executions since 1991
While standing outside the prison that housed Virginia’s execution chamber, Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in the state March 24.
Virginia General Assembly votes to ban death penalty; governor supports move
Both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate have now passed bills that would abolish the death penalty in the state.
Death penalty hits historic low in U.S. ‘despite federal execution spree,’ says report
A new report Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center said the use of capital punishment reached a historic low this year in the United States even with the return of federal executions by the Trump administration.