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title: 'Federal Death Penalty in Non-Death Penalty States'
description: 'The federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988 with a limited statute for murders in the course of a drug conspiracy. It was expanded to 60 offenses in…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-death-penalty-in-non-death-penalty-states'
section: news
date: '2005-07-21T20:47:55-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:23:58-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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The federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988 with a limited statute for murders in the course of a drug conspiracy. It was expanded to 60 offenses in 1994 and included crimes such as carjacking and drive-by shootings if a death results. During the Clinton administration, no one from a non-death penalty state was sentenced to death. Since 2000, there have been at least 5 individuals in non-death states who have received death sentences: 2 in Iowa (Dustin Honken and Angela Johnson), 1 in Massachusetts (Gary Sampson), 1 in Michigan (Marvin Gabrion), and most recently, 1 in Vermont (Donald Fell). A total of 40 people are now under a federal death sentence (in some cases, a judge has not formally imposed the sentence).

See [Federal Death Penalty. ](/article.php?scid=29&did=193)