2024 saw two significant steps towards the repudiation of the death penalty and other state-endorsed executions.
"US declares its military actions worldwide killed no civilians in 2022"
https://airwars.org/research/analysis-us-declares-its-military-actions-worldwide-killed-no-civilians-in-2022/
"President Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row"
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/23/fact-sheet-president-biden-commutes-the-sentences-of-37-individuals-on-death-row/
As Chomsky famously said, «If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged». Biden and Obama are no exception.