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America and the death penalty

For the United States can make a map by state rather then having all of the U.S in red, many states have abolished the death penalty and there is currently a Federal moratorium on the death penalty. Comrade-Colonel23 (talk) 20:02, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The test for adding a moritorium to the map is that it has been at least 10 years since there was an execution. The most recent federal exécution was in 2021. As well that same year the US Attorney General appealed a case which set aside the death penalty for the surviving Boston Marathon bomber. The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that the accused was subject to the death penalty. Given these developments, it is premature to change the map. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:59, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As well, this article is about countries that retain the death penalty. So long as the death penalty is used in the United States, whether at the state or federal level, the United States is a country that retains the death penalty. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 12:32, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maps about a single country belong on the page discussing how the topic applies to that single country – in this case, Capital punishment in the United States, which already has such a map. Rob Kelk 15:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

United States

President Biden is likely to commute the 40 men on federal death row to life imprisonment in his last month in office. The map might need to be changed soon. It also varies by state in the United States Executions are rare outside of southern states with only one this decade. 136.37.105.109 (talk) 16:33, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

While that commutation was issued, it is possible that the next office-holder might reverse it. Also, your statement "Executions are rare outside of southern states with only one this decade" appears to be incorrect; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present has more than one name listed. It's best to change the map after a legislative change has happened, not because of a single executive order. Rob Kelk 15:04, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Numerical data

User:Spacedragon1969 and User:TheBiggestMicrosoftFan100 have repeatedly edited numerical data in this article while continuing to refer to the sources previously cited and without adding new ones. I personally am going to restore, in accordance with the sources cited in note 9, the figures presented in the incipit, but I do not have the possibility of checking the rest of the edited data. As for them, I believe that either new reliable sources should be introduced or the latest edits should be reverted. I would like to point out that the comparison between the data presented by the source "Amnesty International" and by this article is somewhat complicated by the different criteria with which the states are computed: de facto according to the former, de jure (recognition by the UN) according to the latter. Jeanambr (talk) 15:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]