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Pennsylvania and the Death Penalty

Pennsylvania allows the death penalty as an option in cases of first-degree murder with 17 aggravating circumstances.

The sentence is death by lethal injection.

Minimum age for death penalty: 16

Executions 1930-1976: 152

Executions since 1977: 2


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