Capital punishment in New York
In 2005, supporters of the death penalty in the New York Legislature passed a bill restoring New York's death penalty in the Republican-controlled State Senate, but the legislation was voted down by a legislative committee in the Democratic-controlled New York Assembly, and was not enacted into law.
List of people executed in New York
As a result of several United States Supreme Court decisions, capital punishment was suspended in the United States from 1972 through 1976.