{"id":62210,"date":"2026-10-06T22:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-how-widely-used-is-the-death-penalty-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:20:59","slug":"watch-how-widely-used-is-the-death-penalty-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-how-widely-used-is-the-death-penalty-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: How widely used is the death penalty in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a renewed debate about the death penalty after Christa Pike survived two execution attempts in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So how widely used is the death penalty in the US?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton has looked into the facts and figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i>Produced by Krystal Campos and Meiying Wu; Graphics by Mark Edwards and Leo Scutt-Richter<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c54g1e3yxv0ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a renewed debate about the death penalty after Christa Pike survived two execution attempts in Tennessee. So how widely used is the death penalty in the US? BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton has looked into the facts and figures. Produced by Krystal Campos and Meiying Wu; Graphics by Mark Edwards and Leo Scutt-Richter Source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[715,871,1509,8911],"class_list":["post-62210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-death","tag-penalty","tag-watch","tag-widely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62212,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62210\/revisions\/62212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}