Capital punishment in American Samoa

Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States. The only crime punishable by death is first degree murder, but American Samoa last executed a prisoner in the 1930s; the method used was hanging.^[1]

Recently, Governor Togiola Tulafono proposed to abolish the death penalty and make life in prison without parole a sole punishment for murder.

References

↑ "Witnesses all agree repealing death penalty is a must". Samoa News. September 27, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2016.

Capital punishment in Oceania

Sovereign states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue

Dependencies and other territories	American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

Capital punishment in the United States

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Lists of individuals executed	Federal Government Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Michigan Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington Wyoming

Other	List of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment List of death row inmates in the United States List of women on death row in the United States Juveniles National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Death Penalty Information Center

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