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1989 Cap. Punishment 1 (1989)

handle is hein.death/cpshm1989 and id is 1 raw text is: U%.S. Department of Justice t Office of Justice Programs ' Bureau of Justice Statistics FU I1 I I I ! BuraoJutc atitc Buleti Capital Punishment 1989 By Lawrence A. Greenfeld BJS Statistician Eight States executed 16 prisoners during 1989, bringing the total number of execu- tions to 120 since 1976, the year that the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. Those executed during 1989 had spent an average of 7 years and 11 months awaiting execution. During 1989, 251 prisoners under sen- tence of death were received by State prison systems from the courts. Ninety-six persons had their death sentence vacated or commuted during the year, and 6 died while under a death sentence. At yearend, 34 States reported a total of 2,250 prison- ers under sentence of death, a 6.2% in- crease over the number held at the end of 1988. One prisoner was under a death sentence for other than murder (an inmate admitted during 1986 for the capital rape of a child in Mississippi); the remainder had all been convicted of murder. The median time since the death sentence was im- posed for the 2,250 prisoners was 4 years and 3 months. About 7 out of 10 offenders under sen- tence of death for whom criminal-history data were available had a prior felony con- viction; about 1 in 11 had a prior homicide conviction. About 2 in 5 condemned pris- oners had a criminal justice status at the time of the capital offense. Half of these were on parole; the rest were in prison, on escape from prison, on probation, or they had charges pending against them. The majority, 1,310 (58.2%), of those under sentence of death were white; 903 (40.1%) were black; 23 (1%) were Ameri- can Indian; and 14 (0.6%) were Asian. This Bulletin marks the 60th annual capital punishment report issued by the Federal Government. Begun in 1930, this statistical series has provided detailed information on the characteris- tics of those receiving a death sentence as well as those persons executed. Machine-readable data covering all per- sons under a sentence of death at any time between 1973 and 1989 are avail- able to the public through the BJS- sponsored National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. I would like to express appreciation to the many persons in State and Federal corrections agencies and offices of State attorneys general who make this annual report possible. Steven D. Dillingham, Ph.D. Director Status of death penalty as of 12/31/89 and 1989 executions Death penalty in force No Executions in 1989 death penalty No Yes 17I1[ Figure I October 1990 w (0

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