Is there a death penalty in America?

The United States has the death penalty. The United States is currently a state law, and now 12 States have completely abolished the death penalty, and 38 States have retained the death penalty. Among the states that retain the death penalty, some states put the death penalty aside and did not execute it for a long time. Most states stipulate that only serious murder (usually first-degree murder) can be sentenced to death.

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American people's opposition to the death penalty reached its peak at 1966. At that time, 47% people in the United States opposed the death penalty, more than those who supported it (42% at that time). At that time, there were 1 1% people who "had no opinion" about it. At the same time, in the 1970s and 1980s, 1968+0980, the proportion of American people supporting the death penalty increased, and the number of people supporting the death penalty reached its peak in 1994, when 80% of people supported the death penalty. After that, the movement against the death penalty intensified again. In the latest Gallup poll conducted on 20 1 1, 35% of Americans are against the death penalty. In addition, as a result of the death penalty referendum in California in 20 12, 53% people opposed a proposal that would lead to the abolition of the death penalty (Proposal No.34), while 47% people supported it.

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The standard shed death penalty includes the crime of intentional homicide when engaging in major criminal activities such as human smuggling, kidnapping, bank robbery, rape or child molestation. Other crimes punishable by death in federal law include using weapons of mass destruction, hijacking vehicles or engaging in terrorist activities, intentionally killing law enforcement officers and their immediate family members in retaliation, intentionally killing government leaders, and so on.

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The United States, like many countries, used hanging and shooting in history, and later used the electric chair and poison gas. Before the 20th century, beheading was one of the legal execution methods in Utah, although it was never used. As of May 20 16, 3 1 of the 5/kloc-0 state-level divisions (50 states+District of Columbia) in the United States still retain the death penalty. Most of them stipulate the purpose of injection.