Report: U.S. states carrying out death penalties in 2023 hit new 20-year low

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : "States are struggling to figure out ways to execute people and it's part of this larger trend," Jeff Kirchmeier, author of Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty, a book that analyzes the history of capital punishment and race, told Yahoo News.
39% : It's a small number of states who are still active," Maria T. Kolar, an assistant professor at the Oklahoma City University School of Law who teaches criminal law and capital punishment, told Yahoo News.
39% : The Department of Justice, for its part, put a moratorium on federal executions in 2021 and has not brought forth new death penalty cases, but it has backed some federal defendants in existing criminal cases.

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