Report: US executions dropped to 25-year low in 2016

Published December 21, 2016 3:08pm ET



The number of executions in the United States dropped to a 25-year low in 2016, according to a new report.

The Death Penalty Information Center’s year end report found there were just 20 executions in 2016, fewer than any year in the last 25 years. The report also discovered that judges and juries this year imposed the fewest death sentences since states began re-enacting death penalty statutes in 1973.

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