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[4] Although 31 states still retain the death penalty, only 7 of them actually carried out executions in 2014. [5] Twenty-six states have carried out executions during the last ten years; [6] the remaining 7 states, the U.S. Federal Government, and the U.S. Military are de facto abolitionist by U.N. standards.
As of April 1, 2008, the Death Penalty was authorized by 37 states, the Federal Government, and the U.S. Military.s of January 1, 2008, 3,350 convicted murdererswere awaiting execution on Death Row in the U.S., including 44/09 on Federal / Military Death Row.