Capital punishment in Delaware
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Capital punishment in Delaware was abolished after being declared unconstitutional by the Delaware Supreme Court on August 2, 2016.[1] The ruling retroactively applies to earlier death sentences, and remaining Delaware death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.[2] Despite this, the capital statute for first-degree murder under Title 11, Chapter 42, Section 09, of the Delaware Code has yet to be repealed, though it is unenforceable.
Delaware has the third highest number of executions since 1976 per capita, behind Oklahoma and Texas.[3] Sixteen people were executed in the state after the Gregg v. Georgia decision of 1976.[4] The last person executed in the state was 28-year-old Shannon Johnson, who was executed on April 20, 2012.[1]
As of 2015, 64 percent of Delawareans oppose capital punishment, compared to 30 percent who support it.[5]