CHICAGO 16 December 2020, (TON):  According to an annual death penalty report The U.S. government has carried out more executions in a year compare to others states that still conduct executions.

President Donald Trump has overseen a full resumption of federal executions in year 2020 after a 17-year gap, the number goes upto 10 execution. That's an annual total higher than for any term of office since the 1800s.

 “We have never seen it before. We never expected to see it. And it may be a long time before we ever see it happen again,” said Robert Dunham, the executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based center.

The Center does not take a position in the debate over the death penalty, but has criticized the way states and the federal government implement the death penalty, while identifying problems with racial bias and secrecy, among other things.

Although federal administration has three more executions scheduled ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, a Democrat and death-penalty opponent.

Historically, the federal government hasn’t been a prolific executioner compared to states, carrying out no more than a few hundred non-military executions since the nation’s founding. From colonial days to the present, states have put to death more than 15,000 people, according to data compiled by leading death-penalty researchers M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla.

Historically, the federal government has not been a prolific executioner compared to the states, As per the compiled data of M Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla the two prominent death penalty researchers, from the colonial days to the present, states have executed more than 15,000 people.

While state numbers suddenly changed this year due to the stopping of many executions as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. According to the report, the country witnessed 30 or fewer executions for the sixth year in a row, which has been declining steadily since executions approached 100 in 1999.