U.S.A orders Executions : since 2003 !

The US federal government is to resume executing death-row inmates after a 16-year hiatus

the justice department has announced.

Attorney General William Barr said in a statement he had directed the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

to schedule the executions of five inmates.

There are 2,673 inmates on death row in the US

California has the most prisoners on death row - 733 -
but has carried out only 13 executions since 1976

The annual number of death sentences fell by 85% between 1998 and 2018
- from 295 to 43