Capital punishment was outlawed in the State of New York after the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in the state) declared it was not allowed...

Capital punishment in New Jersey is currently abolished, after Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine signed a law repealing it in 2007. Before this, capital...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Florida. Since 1976, the state has executed 106 convicted murderers, all at Florida State Prison...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio, although all executions have been suspended indefinitely by Governor Mike DeWine until...

until the United States Supreme Court briefly abolished capital punishment with its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia. The State Electrician was contracted...

Capital punishment has been repealed in the U.S. state of Illinois since 2011. Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. The last...

Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Tennessee. When the prosecution seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous...

be executed in New York state. Two years later New York state abolished capital punishment. The state would later reinstate the practice in 1995 using...

Capital punishment in Islam is traditionally regulated by the Islamic law (sharīʿa), which derived from the Quran, ḥadīth literature, and sunnah (accounts...

Capital punishment is not allowed to be carried out in the U.S. state of California, due to both a standing 2006 federal court order against the practice...