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	23 [[United States of America\|U.S.]] states have completely banned the death penalty, and another six have not executed anyone in more than 10 years. The United States has executed 1,601 total people since 1976, 1,306 of them in the former [[Confederate States of America (1861–1865)\|Confederate]] states. Hundreds of innocent people have been sentenced to death, with 6.3% of death sentences since 1972 reversed due to misconduct~~. Because the majority of people on death row and almost half of those executed are non-white, the U.Ʂ death penalty is also known as legal lynching~~.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Gloria Rubac\|newspaper=Workers World\|title=Why we must oppose ALL executions\|date=2024-10-10\|url=https://www.workers.org/2024/10/81325/\|retrieved=2024-10-15}}</ref>		23 [[United States of America\|U.S.]] states have completely banned the death penalty, and another six have not executed anyone in more than 10 years. The United States has executed 1,601 total people since 1976, 1,306 of them in the former [[Confederate States of America (1861–1865)\|Confederate]] states. Hundreds of innocent people have been sentenced to death, with 6.3% of death sentences since 1972 reversed due to misconduct.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Gloria Rubac\|newspaper=Workers World\|title=Why we must oppose ALL executions\|date=2024-10-10\|url=https://www.workers.org/2024/10/81325/\|retrieved=2024-10-15}}</ref> Executions are so effective in terrorizing the [[The people\|masses]] that the California government is willing to spend over $380 million on each execution.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation\|newspaper=Liberation News\|title=End the racist, anti-worker death penalty!\|date=2016-09-26\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/end-racist-anti-worker-death-penalty/\|retrieved=2024-10-15}}</ref>

			==== Racism ====
			Because the majority of people on death row and almost half of those executed are non-white, the U.S. death penalty is also known as legal lynching.<ref name=":0" /> In [[State of California\|California]] (the state with 25% of national death row inmates), murderers who kill [[White people\|whites]] are four times as likely to be sentenced to death as those who kill Latinos and three times as likely to be sentenced to death as those who kill Black people. 80% of people executed in the 1990s were convicted of murdering whites even though only 28% of homicide victims in California were white.<ref name=":1" />

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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[[File:French revolution painting.png|thumb|Painting of the execution of [[Louis XVI Bourbon]] in 1793 by guillotine during the [[French Revolution]]]]
'''Capital punishment''', also known as the '''death penalty''' or '''judicial homicide''', is the killing of a person as punishment for a [[crime]].

== By country ==

=== United States ===
23 [[United States of America|U.S.]] states have completely banned the death penalty, and another six have not executed anyone in more than 10 years. The United States has executed 1,601 total people since 1976, 1,306 of them in the former [[Confederate States of America (1861–1865)|Confederate]] states. Hundreds of innocent people have been sentenced to death, with 6.3% of death sentences since 1972 reversed due to misconduct. Because the majority of people on death row and almost half of those executed are non-white, the U.Ʂ death penalty is also known as legal lynching.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Gloria Rubac|newspaper=Workers World|title=Why we must oppose ALL executions|date=2024-10-10|url=https://www.workers.org/2024/10/81325/|retrieved=2024-10-15}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[:Category:People murdered by police]]

== References ==
[[Category:Suppression of dissent]]

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