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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by Ylpertnodi on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:56AM (#40003604)
USA still has the death penalty?
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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by hollerith on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:59AM (#40003644)
Yes, it does.

But criminal justice in the US is mostly dispensed at the state level of government, and many of the 50 states do not have the death penalty:

https://dpic-cdn.org/production/images/StatesWithWithoutDP-M...

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by mr_toad on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:00AM (#40009269)
The most recent execution by the federal government was 2021, after a gap of 17 years. A lot depends on who is president.
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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by fbdab103 on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:19AM (#40009600)
That sounded unbelievable, but Wikipedia supports it[0]. Last US federal execution in 2003-03-18 was followed by 2020-07-14. The first person executed in 2020 had been on death row for 21 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_by_the...

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by mxfihdsgyxegaas on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:56AM (#40009766)
It sounds unbelievable because its not correct[0]:

>Number of executions

>2025 —

>2024 5

>2023 24

>Total 29

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_t...

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by pavlov on Friday April 12, 2024 @02:17AM (#40009871)
Those are executions by states, not by the U.S. federal government.
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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by naveen99 on Saturday April 13, 2024 @08:17AM (#40022654)
It’s the united _states_, not the federal america
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