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Shouldn't Illinois be orange (abolitionist in practice) on account of the moratorium? (Backgrounder: governor George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions a number of years back, and on leaving office he may have actually commuted the sentences of everybody on death row to life imprisonment, I'm not sure about that; anyway, his successor Rod Blagojevich has continued the moratorium.) QuartierLatin1968 03:06, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

The federal death penalty

The federal government has the death penalty, so a person can be executed for crimes committed in any state, if tried in a federal court. Timothy McVeigh is one example, though Oklahoma also has the death penalty. Should the federal death penalty be noted in the description? -- Kjkolb 12:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Puerto Rico deems it unconstitutional

The constitution of Puerto Rico clearly says on its Article II - CARTA DE DERECHOS that death penalty (Section 7, Art. II, Constitution of the Free Associated State/Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 1952)

That just means that they are constitutionally prohibited from having one; the orange color is reserved for jurisdictions that have provisions for executions in their local laws, but which have been declared illegal by a court of competent jurisdiction over them. 68.39.174.238 20:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)