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Oct 1, 2023 · State-by-State Death Row Populations by Race. as of October 1, 2023. (In this table, the total of inmates on death row will be slightly higher than the national total of 2,262 because some inmates were sentenced to death in more than one state and hence will be counted twice.) Source: Death Row Population Figures from NAACP Legal Defense and ...
- Size of Death Row by Year | Death Penalty Information Center
The size of death row in the United States has declined...
- Race and the Death Penalty by the Numbers
More than 75% of death row defendants who have been executed...
- Executions by Race and Race of Victim | Death Penalty ...
"In 82% of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was...
- Size of Death Row by Year | Death Penalty Information Center
Graph showing that although just 13% of the U.S. population is Black, 42% of people on death row are Black. White people, on the other hand, make up 60% of the U.S. population, but only make up 42% of the death row population.
Sep 15, 2020 · The report found that throughout the modern era, people of color have been overrepresented on death row — in 2019, 52% of the death row inmates were Black, but that number has dropped to 42% this...
At yearend 2020, about 56% of prisoners under sentence of death were white and 41% were black.
Apr 18, 2024 · In an analysis of the more than 1,400 lethal injection executions conducted in the U.S. since 1982, researchers for the nonprofit Reprieve reported that states made significantly more mistakes...
