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Fewer new death sentences were imposed in the United States in 2020 than in any other year since the Supreme Court struck down all existing capital punishments statutes in the U.S. in 1972. With counties unable to safely conduct capital trials, states imposed a record low 18 new death sentences, 42% below the previous record low of 31 set in 2016.
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Seventeen prisoners were executed in the United States in...
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Jan 15, 2020 · Seventeen prisoners were executed in the United States in 2020. Five states and the Federal Government carried out executions. Most states carry out executions with a three-drug lethal-injection protocol. Others use a single drug.
DateNumber Since 1976StateName1/15/201513TXJohn Gardner1/29/201514GADonnie Lance2/6/201515TXAbel Ochoa2/20/201516TNNicholas Todd SuttonAug 22, 2024 · As of 2021, 2,382 prisoners in the U.S. were under sentence of death. Of those sentenced, 97.9 percent were male, and around 40 percent of them were Black. In that same year, 84 prisoners...
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- 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
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- Jurisdictions with no death penalty (20)
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- 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.
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- Data collection forms are available on the BJS website
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- 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
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Dec 1, 2021 · Seven states received a total of 14 prisoners under sentence of death in 2020, the smallest annual number reported since the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated capital punishment statutes in several states in 1972 (see Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972)).
Dec 10, 2021 · Seven states received a total of 14 prisoners under sentence of death in 2020, the smallest annual number reported since the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated capital punishment statutes in several states in 1972 (see Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972)).
May 24, 2022 · The tables below show how many people have been on death row and how many have been executed since 2003, as well as executions by race and jurisdiction. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic put many states’ trials and executions for 2020. For information on US executions before 2003, see: The ESPY List: US Executions 1608-2002.
