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1 Kathrina Symborski Wolfkot, States Grapple with the Death Penalty 1 (2025)

handle is hein.brennan/stegpplew0001 and id is 1 raw text is: States Grapple with the Death Penalty I State Court Report rSTATECOURTREPORTU (~Y~AL LAW States Grapple with the Death Penalty More people have been executed in 2025 than in any year of the past decade. But some states are strengthening protections against the death penalty. By Kathrina Szymborski Wolfkot Published: July 17, 2025 Delaware Michigan Florida South Carolina Texas Aabana Georgia Nebraska Missouri Oklahoma California Washington You're reading State Court Report's biweekly newsletter. Subscribe to receive it in your inbox. Delaware lawmakers last week voted to amend the state's constitution to prohibit the death penalty. Should the measure pass again in the next legislative session, as required for constitutional amendments in the state, Delaware would become only the second state with an explicit constitutional bar on the death penalty, after https://statecourtreport.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/states-grapple-death-penalty 7/25/25, 2:28 PM I 1/7