States With and Without the Death Penalty

^ In 1979, the Rhode Island Supreme Court recognized that the death penalty in the case of murdering a prisoner with a prisoner is unconstitutional, according to the state's ruling. Congress abolished the law in 1984 and deleted it from the domestic criminal law.

^ ^ In 2004, the New York Court of Appeal considered part of the state 's death penal law as unconstitutional. In 2007, the court ruled that the previous complaint would also apply to the last person of the state's death row prisoners. Congress voted against the attempt to restore the law

* In March 2009, the State of New Mexico decided to abolish the death penalty. However, the abolition was not retroactive, and the two were driven to the state's death penalty

** In April 2012, the Connecticut Legislature decided to abolish the death penalty for future crimes. According to that condition, the abolition did not affect the status of the 11 prisoners of the state 's death row prisoners at the time. The Connecticut State Supreme Court subsequently decided that the death penalty violated the state constitution in August 2015. The court repeatedly said what was held in May 2016 that the rest of the state prisoners must live again without parole.

# On August 2, 2016, the Delaware State Supreme Court deemed the provincial capital judgment procedure unconstitutional and deleted the death penalty province of Delaware. Delaware State Attorney General Office did not ask the US Supreme Court to review the judgment. On December 15, 2016, the Delaware State High Court ruled that the decision was applied retroactively and sentenced 13 prisoners of state death row to life imprisonment.

In the United States itself, 13 states have not received the death penalty now. The latest information from Amnesty International has the following items. The death penalty for all crimes was abolished in 90 countries and regions. Eleven countries have abolished all crimes except special crimes like war crime Ⅲ. In fact, it can be thought that 30 countries abolish the death penalty: they hold the death penalty by law, but they have policies and practices that do not enforce the death penalty if they have not executed the death penalty over the past 10 years It is considered, iv. A total of 131 countries abolished capital punishment or practical death penalty. The capital punishment is maintained and used in other 66 countries and regions, but the number of countries actually executing POWs is much less. The debate about the death penalty has been going on for a long time.

In recent years the implementation of the country steadily declines and some states and courts do not adopt this approach. According to records recorded by the Death Penalty Information Center, the Washington decision rendered the state the twentieth country without capital punishment. The abolition of the death penalty in certain countries is only to face the uncertainty as to what happens to those who died in prisoners before being imprisoned or convicted of crime. Maryland abolished the death penalty in 2013, but Martin O'Malley (D) of the then governor of the time until the following year said he would pass the remaining death sentences of the state. Connecticut abandoned the death penalty in 2012, but before that it was a crime option and in 2016 the state high court stated that its choice is unconstitutional.

The Washington Supreme Court dismissed the state's death penalty as "arbitrary and racial prejudice."