1.5 Capital punishment reinstated (1976). 1.4 Capital punishment suspended (1972). The Human Rights Measurement Initiative gives the US a score of 4.4 out of 10 for the right to freedom from the death penalty. On July 1, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that a moratorium on the Federal death penalty was being reinstated. Higgs' execution was also the last under the presidency of Donald Trump. The last and most recent federal execution was of Dustin Higgs, who was executed on January 16, 2021. Thirteen federal death row inmates have been executed since federal executions resumed in July 2020. As of January 2022, there were 44 inmates on federal death row. On July 14, 2020, Daniel Lewis Lee became the first inmate executed by the federal government since 2003. The Trump administration's Department of Justice announced its plans to resume executions for federal crimes in 2019. As of December 16, 2020, 2,591 convicts are still on death row. At least 185 people who were sentenced to death since 1972 have since been exonerated, about 2.4% or one in 42. Since then, more than 7,800 defendants have been sentenced to death of these, more than 1,500 have been executed. Subsequently, a majority of states enacted new death penalty statutes, and the court affirmed the legality of capital punishment in the 1976 case Gregg v. Georgia, reducing all pending death sentences to life imprisonment at the time. In 1972, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down capital punishment statutes in Furman v. There were no executions in the United States between 19. 
It is common practice for the condemned to be administered sedatives prior to execution, regardless of the method used. The Philippines has since abolished executions, and Guatemala has done so for civil offenses, leaving the United States as one of four countries to still use this method (along with China, Thailand, and Vietnam).
It is one of 54 countries worldwide applying it, and was the first to develop lethal injection as a method of execution, which has since been adopted by five other countries. Along with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, the United States is one of five advanced democracies and the only Western nation that applies the death penalty regularly. The existence of capital punishment in the United States can be traced to early colonial Virginia. Although it is a legal penalty in 27 states, only 20 states have the ability to execute death sentences, with the other seven, as well as the federal government, being subject to different types of moratoriums. Capital punishment is, in practice, only applied for aggravated murder. In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty in 27 states, American Samoa, by the federal government, and the military, and is abolished in 23 states.
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