The list of states with the death penalty is below.
Homicide rates for states that use the death penalty are consistently higher than for those that don’t. The most recent FBI data confirms this. For people without a conscience, fear of being caught is the best deterrent.
Other information:
The death penalty actually costs much, much more than life in prison (with or without parole.) Life without parole is on the books in nearly every state. It means what it says.
Families of murder victims have testified to the drawn out and unavoidable damage that the death penalty process does to families like theirs and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.
Most important: There is no doubt that people have been sentenced to death for crimes they didn't commit.
I believe the death penalty should be abolished.
STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY (34)
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
Plus U.S. Military & U.S. Gov’t
Most of these rarely (if ever) use it:
2011- 43 executions: (12 states )
Texas 13, Alabama 6, Ohio 5, Georgia 4, Arizona 4, Florida 2, Mississippi 2, Oklahoma 2, Delaware 1, Idaho 1, South Carolina 1,Virginia 1
2010 - 46 executions (11 states)
Texas 17, Ohio 8, Alabama 5, Mississippi 3, Oklahoma 3, Virginia 3, Georgia 2, Louisiana 1,
Florida 1, Utah 1, Washington , Pennsylvania 1
In 2009, there were 52 executions, carried out by just 11 states:
Texas 24, Alabama 6, Virginia 3, Oklahoma 3, Ohio 5, Georgia 3, South Carolina 2, Florida 2,
Tennessee 2, Indiana 1, Missouri 1
2008, there were a total of 37 executions, carried out by 9 states:
Texas 18, Virginia 4, Georgia 3, South Carolina 3, Florida 2, Mississippi 2, Kentucky 1, Ohio 2, Oklahoma 2
In 2006-7, there were a total of 95 executons (53 in 2006 and 42 in 2007,) carried out by a total of 17 states: Alabama 4, Arizona 1, California 1, Florida 4, Georgia 1, Indiana 3, Mississippi 1,Montana 1, North Carolina 4, Nevada 1, Ohio 7, Oklahoma 7, South Carolina 2, South Dakota 1, Tennessee 3, Texas 50, Virginia 4.