(This is not an argument for or against.) I was curious, so I checked. The death penalty is legal at the federal level and only 27 states. 23 states have abolished the death penalty. And many of the states where it is legal have effectively stopped executing people, so the majority of states do not execute people. It isn't much of a surprise which states still do, and there's only 11 states that do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Un...