ONLY 35 States (70%) Have Death Penalty for Murder!!

States With and Without the Death Penalty

STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY			Other State Information: State by State Information Summary of States’ Death Penalty Statutes Clemency Process by State Murder Rates by Stat
Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky	Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon	Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington Wyoming ALSO – U.S. Gov’t – U.S. Military
STATES WITHOUT THE DEATH PENALTY (YEAR ABOLISHED IN PARENTHESES)
Alaska (1957) Hawaii (1948) Iowa (1965) Maine (1887) Massachusetts (1984) Michigan (1846)	Minnesota (1911) New Jersey (2007) New Mexico* (2009) New York (2007)# North Dakota (1973) Rhode Island (1984)** Vermont (1964)	West Virginia (1965) Wisconsin (1853) ALSO – Dist. of Columbia (1981)

* In March 2009, New Mexico voted to abolish the death penalty. However, the repeal was not retroactive, leaving two people on the state’s death row.

** In 1979, the Supreme Court of Rhode Island held that a statute making a death sentence mandatory for someone who killed a fellow prisoner was unconstitutional. The legislature removed the statute in 1984.

# In 2004, the New York Court of Appeals held that a portion of the state’s death penalty law was unconstitutional. In 2007, they ruled that their prior holding applied to the last remaining person on the state’s death row. The legislature has voted down attempts to restore the statute.