Capital punishment in American Samoa

[1] Territorial statutes require the jury to be unanimous to impose a death sentence.

The court cannot impose sentence of death if the jury fails to agree on the punishment.

The only other sentence allowed for first-degree murder is life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 40 years.

[3] First-degree murder is punishable by death if it involves one or more of the following aggravating factors:[4]

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