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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:
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).
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 · MAGAZINE. Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong. Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t...
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.
Jan 12, 2021 · Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, died by lethal injection early Wednesday after the Supreme Court vacated several lower-court rulings, clearing the way for her to become...
