Politics & Government
Report: Three-Decade Low After US Carries Out Only 11 Executions In 2021
Those numbers were part of an annual report on the death penalty released Thursday, which was also sharply critical of the Supreme Court.
December 16, 2021
States and the federal government carried out 11 executions this year, the fewest since 1988.
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Those numbers were part of an annual report on the death penalty released Thursday, which was also sharply critical of the Supreme Court and its role in green-lighting executions. Three of the death sentences were carried out in January during an unprecedented run of federal executions that ended days before President Donald Trump left office. Annual executions have steadily declined since peaking at 98 in 1999.
Pandemic-related disruptions partly accounted for the low number of executions this year — though 2021 marked the seventh consecutive year when there were fewer than 30 executions and fewer than 50 new death sentences, the report said.
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