38 states have jurisdiction with death penalty statutes with New York being the latest reintroducing it.  Four states
(Kansas, New Hampshire, New York, Wyoming) have death penalty statutes but no sentences imposed.

There are 12 states without capital punishment: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
 
 

Alabama Method of execution: Electrocution

Arizona Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Arkansas Method of execution: Lethal Injection; or choice of Electrocution for those sentenced before March 4, 1983

California Method of execution:Lethal Injection

Colorado Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Connecticut The state has only 5 people, all men, who are currently condemned to death. 3 of them are awaiting a new sentence. The last female inmate executed by the state of Connecticut was only 12. Hannah Ocuish, who was 3 months short of her 13th birthday, was hanged on Dec. 20, 1786, for murder, according to connecticut Historical Society records. Her victim, in a case brought in New London, was Eunice Bolles, a 6-year-old girl in her care. The last man executed in the state was Joseph "Mad Mog" Taborsky, who went to the electric chair in 1960.  Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Delaware Method of execution: Lethal Injection; or choice of Hanging for those sentenced before June 13, 1986

Florida Method of execution: Electrocution

Georgia Method of execution: Electrocution

Idaho Method of execution: Lethal Injection or Firing Squad

Illinois Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Indiana Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Kansas Kansas has a jurisdiction with capital punishment but no sentences imposed.  Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Kentucky Method of execution: Electrocution

Louisiana Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Maryland Method of execution: Lethal Injection; or choice of Gas Chamber for those sentenced before March 11, 1994

Mississippi Method of execution:Lethal Injection

Missouri Method of execution: Lethal Injection or Gas Chamber

Montana Method of execution: Lethal Injection or Hanging

Nebraska Method of execution: Electrocution

Nevada Method of execution: Lethal Injection

New Hampshire New Hampshire has a jurisdiction with capital punishment but no sentences imposed.  Method of execution: Lethal Injection or Hanging

New Jersey Method of execution: Lethal Injection

New Mexico Method of execution: Lethal Injection

New York New York has a jurisdiction with capital punishment but no sentences imposed.  Method of execution: Lethal Injection

North Carolina Method of execution: Gas Chamber or Lethal Injection

Ohio Method of execution: Electrocution or Lethal Injection

Oklahoma Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Oregon The last time Oregon executed a death row inmate was in 1962. In 1964, Oregon voters rejected the gas chamber, and they adopted lethal injection when they reinstated capital punishment in 1984. Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Pennsylvania Method of execution: Lethal Injection

South Carolina Sylvester Adams was the first person in South Carolina to be given a choice between the electric chair and lethal injection. All others prior were executed by electrocution. Inmates still have the choice.  Method of execution: Lethal Injection or Electrocution

South Dakota Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Tennessee Method of execution: Electrocution, Lethal Injection after Jan 1, 1999

Texas Texas is the state with the largest number of executions in the United States of America.  Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Utah last update: 4/4/98  Method of execution: Firing Squad or Lethal Injection

Virginia Method of execution: Lethal Injection or Electrocution

Washington Method of execution: Hanging or Lethal Injection

Wyoming Method of execution: Lethal Injection

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