Capital punishment in the United States

Capital punishment in the United States is officially sanctioned by 38 of the 50 states, as well as by the federal government. The overwhelming majority of executions are performed by the states; the federal government maintains the right to use capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) but does so infrequently. Each state practicing capital punishment has different laws regarding its methods, age limits, and crimes which qualify. The United States is second only to the People's Republic of China in the number of death sentences passed.

External links

Anti-death penalty

• National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty
• Death Penalty Information Center
• The Innocence Project
• Truth In Justice
• Attrition of capital cases
• Amnesty International USA campaign to abolish the death penalty
• Campaign to end the Death Penalty
• Religious Organizing - Against the Death Penalty
• Human Writes
• Death Penalty Focus

Pro-death penalty

• Pro Death Penalty.com
• Pro Death Penalty Resource Page
• Clark County, IN Prosecutor's Page on capital punishment.

More information

• Last Meals on Death Row
• Execution of Caleb Adams - Story of Caleb Adams, who was publicly executed in Windham, Connecticut on November 29, 1803 for the murder of 6-year-old Oliver Woodworth.