how many states still enforce death penalty
Currently, thirty two states enforce the death penalty. In addition, there are eighteen states that have abolished the death penalty. Currently, thirty two states enforce the death penalty. In addition, there are eighteen states that have abolished the death penalty.
Since the start of 2014, all but two of the nationâs 49 executions have been carried out by just five states: Texas, Missouri, Florida, Oklahoma and Georgia. For the first time in the nearly 30 years that I have been studying and writing about the death penalty, the end of this troubled system is creeping into view.