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. 

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