Cases
This Supreme Court case stopped the death penalty for a short time in the early 1970s.
What is Furman v. Georgia?
Perferred method of execution for majority of states.
What is lethal injection?
In the U.S, this amendment has had a crucial part in debates on whether capital punishment is cruel or justifiable.
What is the 8th amendment?
This region of the United States has the highest amount of death row inmates and executions.
What is the South?
This large western state has the most people on death row, but hasn't executed anyone since 2006.
What is California?
This court case was overturned by the ruling of Furman V Georgia.
What is Gregg v. Georgia?
Requires three officers of laws to be present and active during executions
What is firing squad?
A murder can become a “capital murder” if committed along with these things
What are aggravating factors?
This state has carried out the most executions in the U.S.
What is Texas?
This state is the only one in New England that still allows the death penalty, though it has not executed anyone in decades.
What is New Hampshire?
This Court case decided that juries not judges must find the aggravating factors necessary to impose the death penalty.
What is Ring V Arizona
Before lethal injection, this was one of the most common methods of execution in early American history that involved a public scaffold.
What is hanging?
In the case of Kennedy v. Louisiana, the Court felt the death penalty couldn’t apply to this crime, as it didn’t result in death.
What is child rape?
This western county has historically sentenced more people to death than any other U.S county.
What is Los Angeles County?
This state made the firing squad its main method of execution in 2025 by Governor Brad Little.
What is Idaho?
This Court case ruled that executing individuals with intellectual disabilities is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment.
What is Atkins v. Virginia?
193 executions have occurred, using this form of execution, since 1976.
What is the electric chair?
New Mexico is the only state that applies the death penalty to this crime.
What is espionage ?
Out of the 50 U.S. states, this number of states have either abolished the death penalty or have not carried out an execution in at least 10 years.
What is 33 states?
This state reinstated the firing squad as an execution option and carried out an execution by firing squad in 2025.
What is South Carolina?
This precedent was established in the 2005 Roper v. Simmons decision.
Which decision declared it unconstitutional for crimes committed before the age of 18 to be punished by the death penalty?
During the Reign of Terror, most executions in France were carried out using this device.
What is the guillotine?
The state of Montana allows for punishment by execution for already incarcerated people for this crime.
What is aggravated assault?
This ethnic group are roughly 0.4% of the inmate population that have been executed
What is Native American or Alaskan Native
This state became the first to authorize nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method in 2018.
What is Oklahoma?