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List of death row inmates in the United States. As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
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- Terms and definitions
- Civil authority—The state or federal entity responsible for implementing and enforcing capital punishment laws, excluding military authorities.
- Removal from under sentence of death—The
- Executions in 2020
- Montana
- Jurisdictions with no death penalty (20)
- Jurisdiction
- Race
- aCounts of female prisoners under sentence of death at yearend 2019 have been revised from those reported in Capital Punishment, 2019 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 300381, BJS, June 2021). The revised counts include one prisoner in California who was originally reported as a male prisoner. Following sex reassignment surgery, she is now housed in a female facility and included in the count of female prisoners.
- Jurisdiction
- Data collection forms are available on the BJS website
- Black
- Marital status
- Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS-8), 1968–2020.
- December 2021, NCJ 302729
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Aggravating factor—Specific elements of a crime defined by statute. When present, these factors may allow a jury to impose a death sentence for a person convicted of a capital ofense. Sometimes these are also called aggravating circumstances. Capital conviction—A formal declaration that a defendant is guilty of a capital ofense, made by the verdict...
Commutation—Reduction of a death sentence by the president (federal) or by a governor or a board of advisors empaneled to review sentences (state). Criteria for granting a commutation vary by state. The new sentence can be a life sentence or a term of years. Death row—A slang term that originally referred to the area of a prison in which prisoners ...
removal of a prisoner from the count of persons under sentence of death because the sentence is no longer in efect. A prisoner can be relieved of a death sentence by several methods: execution, death by causes other than execution, commutation, or an overturned capital conviction or sentence. Sentence of death—A sentence imposed by a court for a ca...
Number of prisoners under sentence of death Federal Bureau of Prisons Texas Missouri Alabama Georgia Tennessee
New Hampshirea South Dakota New York Delaware Washington
Alaska Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Hawaii Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia
Total Federal Texas Oklahoma Missouri Alabama Mississippi
Whitea Blacka American Indian/ Alaska Nativea Asian/Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islandera,b
bIncludes American Indians or Alaska Natives and Asians, Native Hawaiians, or Other Pacific Islanders. cIncludes persons of Hispanic origin.
U.S. total Texas Georgia New York North Carolina California Florida Ohio Virginia South Carolina Alabama Mississippi Oklahoma Louisiana Pennsylvania Missouri Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky Illinois Arizona New Jersey Maryland Indiana Washington Colorado Federal system Nevada District of Columbia West Virginia Delaware Massachusetts Connecticut Oregon ...
at bjs.ojp.gov. The NPS-8 covers all persons under sentence of death at any time during the year who were held in a state or federal nonmilitary correctional facility. This includes capital ofenders transferred from prison to a mental institution and those who may have escaped from custody. It excludes persons sentenced to death under the Uniform C...
American Indian/ Alaska Native Asian/Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islander
Married Divorced/separated Widowed Never married Unknown
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime, criminal victimization, criminal ofenders, victims of crime, correlates of crime, and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels. BJS collects, analyzes, and dis...
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Convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of a prisoner in a federal prison. Allen, Billie Jerome**. Black. MO. 1998. Convicted and sentenced to death for his involvement in an armed bank robbery during which a bank guard was killed. (Co-defendant of Norris Holder.) Barnette, Marcivicci Aquilia. Black.
Mar 31, 2022 · Summary. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, 1973-2020 provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death, as well as those who had their sentences commuted or vacated and prisoners who were executed. This study examines basic sociodemographic classifications including age, sex, race and ethnicity, marital status at time of ...
Jul 1, 2024 · CLICK HERE to see the Latest Death Row USA Report. The January 1, 2024 report includes the following statistics: The number of prisoners on death rows or facing capital retrials or resentencings across the nation was 2,241, a decrease of 21 from October 1, 2023. It was down by 90 (3.9%) from the 2,331 reported on January 1, 2023.
DEATH ROW U.S.A. Summer 2020. A quarterly report by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Deborah Fins Consultant to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Death Row U.S.A. Page 1. Death Row U.S.A. Summer 2020 (As of July 1, 2020) TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATH ROW INMATES KNOWN TO LDF: 2591 (2591 – 181* - 893M= 1517 ...
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Dec 10, 2021 · Colorado repealed the death penalty provision of its first-degree murder statute in July 2020, and the governor commuted the death sentences of the three prisoners under previously imposed sentences of death to life without the possibility of parole. Seven states received a total of 14 prisoners under sentence of death in 2020, the smallest ...
