Capital punishment by the United States federal government

The United States federal government (in comparison to the separate states) may apply the death penalty for treason, terrorism, espionage, federal murder, large-scale drug trafficking, or attempting to kill a witness, juror, or court officer in certain cases. Military law allows execution of soldiers for several crimes. Executions performed by the federal government have been quite rare compared to those performed by state governments. Twenty-six federal (including military) executions have been carried out since 1950. Three of those (none of which were military) have occurred in the modern post-Gregg era. This list only includes those executed under federal jurisdiction. The Federal Bureau of Prisons manages the housing and execution of federal death row prisoners. As of January 19, 2014^[update], fifty-nine people were on the federal death row for men at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana; while the two women on federal death row were at Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.

From 1776 until 2009, 340 people were executed by the federal government, a figure smaller than that of the State of Texas post-Furman v. Georgia.

In 2004 John Brigham, author of a law journal article titled "Unusual Punishment: The Federal Death Penalty in the United States," wrote that "the score of prisoners on federal death row are in some respects little more than a footnote."

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