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Death Row. Around 2, 400 prisoners currently face execution in the United States. The national death-row population has declined for 20 consecutive years, as sentence reversals, executions, and deaths by other causes are outpacing new death sentences.
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.
Nov 17, 2017 · Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 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, 2024 · The January 1, 2022 report includes the following statistics: The number of prisoners on death rows or facing capital retrials or resentencings across the nation was 2,436, a decrease of 19 from October 1, 2021. It was down by 92 (3.6%) from the 2,528 reported on January 1, 2021.
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...
Jul 16, 2024 · Death row is 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.’
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...
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.
Jul 26, 2019 · At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five inmates being held on death row at USP Terre Haute, a high-security penitentiary in Indiana. Here’s a look at the inmates who are scheduled to be executed beginning in December.
