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1993 Cap. Punishment 1 (1993)

handle is hein.death/cpshm1993 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin December 1994, NCJ-150042 Capital Punishment 1993 By James Stephan BJS Statistician and Peter Brien BJS Statistical Assistant Ten States executed 38 prisoners during 1993. The number of persons executed was seven more than in 1992 and was the largest annual number since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of revised State capital punishment laws in 1976. The prisoners executed during 1993 had been under sentence of death an average of 9 years and 5 months, about 1 month less than the average for inmates executed the previous year. For the 2,716 prisoners under sentence of death at yearend, 55% were held by States in the South. Western States had an additional 22%; Midwestern States, 16%; and the Northeastern States of Connecti- cut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 7%. California held the largest number of death row inmates (363), followed by Texas (357), Florida (324), and Pennsylvania (169). Six prisoners were in Federal custody under a death sentence on December 31, 1993. Between January 1 and December 31, 1993, 30 State prison systems and the Federal prison system received 282 prisoners under sentence of death. California (33 admissions), Florida (32), North Carolina (32), and Texas (27) accounted for 44% of the inmates entering prison under a death sentence in 1993. Ten States executed 38 persons in 1993 - 17 in Texas; 5 in Virginia; 4 in Missouri; 3 in Florida; 2 each in Arizona, Delaware, and Georgia; and 1 each in California, Louisiana, and Washington. All were men. Status of the death penalty, December 31, 1993 Executions during 1993 17 5 4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 Texas Virginia Missouri Florida Arizona Delaware Georgia California Louisiana Washington Number of prisoners under sentence of death California Texas Florida Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio Oklahoma Alabama Arizona North Carolina Tennessee Georgia 23 other jurisdictions Total 38 363 357 324 169 152 129 122 120 112 99 98 96 575 Total 2,716 * At yearend 1993, 34 States and the Federal prison system held 2,716 prisoners under sentence of death, 5.3% more than at yearend 1992. All had committed murder. * During 1993, 38 men were executed: 18 were non-Hispanic and white 13 were non-Hispanic and black 1 was Native American 4 were white and Hispanic 2 had an unknown Hispanic origin (1 white and 1 black). * The average time between sentencing and yearend 1993 for the 2,716 inmates was 6 years and 1 month. * During 1993, 282 prisoners under a sentence of death were received by State prison systems from the courts. * Among inmates under sentence of death and with available criminal histories, 2 in 3 had a prior felony conviction; nearly 1 in 10 had a prior homicide conviction. Jurisdictions without a death penalty Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Iowa Kansas Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New York North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont WestVirginia Wisconsin * About 2 in 5 inmates sentenced to death had a criminal justice status when they committed their capital offense: About half of these were on parole and half included persons with charges pending, on probation, in prison or escaped from prison, and others. * Almost 1 in 7 persons sentenced to death between 1988 and 1993 had received two or more death sentences. * Of persons under sentence of death - 1,566 (57.7%) were white 1,109 (40.8%) were black 22 (0.8%) were Native American 16 (0.6%) were Asian American 3 were classified as other race. * The 206 Hispanic inmates under sen- tence of death accounted for 8.1% of inmates with a known ethnicity. * Thirty-five (1.3%) of the persons under a death sentence were women. * Half of the inmates sentenced to death had been sentenced at age 29 or older. 10

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