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As of January 1, 2023, there were 2,331 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. 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).
Jan 1, 2023 · Death Row. "Death Row USA" A quarterly report by the Capital Punishment Project of the Legal Defense Fund. CLICK HERE to see the Latest Death Row USA Report. The January 1, 2023 report includes the following statistics:
Apr 21, 2024 · death row, the part of a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after they have been sentenced to death for a capital crime. The term also applies to the status of prisoners who are awaiting execution in regions where a separate facility for housing them does not exist; nevertheless, they are referred to as “being on death row.”
May 12, 2022 · After spending decades on Arizona's death row, Clarence Dixon was executed on Wednesday for the 1978 murder of Deana Bowdoin. At 66 years old, Dixon is just the most recent example of the...
Feb 18, 2021 · Death row refers to incarcerated persons who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution (as in "inmates on death row"). Historically, death row was a slang term that referred to the area of a prison in which prisoners who were under a sentence of death were housed.
Dec 13, 2023 · The state of Texas has executed nearly 600 men and women since 1982. Most of them had something to say in their last moments, and those words are now collected in a book, Final Words: 578 Men and...
May 1, 2023 · by Sam Levin in San Quentin, California. Mon 1 May 2023 06.00 EDT. S an Quentin prison guards shackled Keith Doolin’s hands behind his back and escorted him to a small cage. It was 8am on a...
