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1994 Cap. Punishment 1 (1994)

handle is hein.death/cpshm1994 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (a Bureau of Justice Statistics February 1996, NCJ-1 58023 Capital Punishment 1994 By James J. Stephan and Tracy L. Snell BJS Statisticians Thirteen States executed 31 prisoners during 1994. The number of persons executed was seven fewer than in 1993. The prisoners executed during 1994 had been under sentence of death an average of 10 years and 2 months, about 9 months more than the average for inmates executed the previous year. At yearend 1994, 2,890 prisoners were under sentence of death. Texas held the largest number of death row in- mates (394), followed by California (381), Florida (342), and Pennsylvania (182). Six prisoners were in Federal custody under a death sentence on December 31, 1994. Between January 1 and December 31, 1994, 26 State prison systems re- ceived 304 prisoners under sentence of death. Texas (43 admissions), Flor- ida (39), North Carolina (27), and Ala- bama (24) accounted for 44% of the inmates entering prison under a death sentence in 1994. During 1994, 31 persons in 13 States were executed - 14 in Texas; 5 in Ar- kansas; 2 in Virginia; and 1 each in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illi- nois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Washington. All were men. Eighteen of the executed prisoners were non-Hispanic whites; 10 were non-Hispanic blacks; 1, white Hispanic; 1, white with unknown Status of the death penalty, December 31,1994 Ean tin d4 .in 199 O Number of prisoners d t ; A d th Jurisdictions ,it t da+h enalt xecu ons Ulr uIn e y1 OI .. V J V !- Texas Arkansas Virginia Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Maryland Nebraska North Carolina Washington Total * During 1994, executed: 20 were whit 11 were blac 14 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 31 Texas California Florida Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio Alabama Oklahoma Arizona North Carolina Tennessee Georgia 23 other jurisdictions Total 31 men were * The 31 persons executed in 1994 were under sentence of death an av- erage of 10 years and 2 months. * At yearend 1994, 34 States and the Federal prison system held 2,890 prisoners under sentence of death, 5.9% more than at yearend 1993. All had committed murder. * Of persons under sentence of death - 1,645 were white 1,197 were black 23 were Native American 17 were Asian American 8 were classified as other race. 394 381 342 182 155 140 135 129 121 111 100 96 604 2,890 Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New York North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin * The 224 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 8.4% of inmates with a known ethnicity. * Forty-one women were under a sentence of death. * About 2 in 5 inmates sentenced to death were on parole or probation or in some other criminal justice status when they committed their capital offense. * Among inmates under sentence of death and with available criminal his- tories, 2 in 3 had a prior felony con- viction; nearly 1 in 10 had a prior homicide conviction. * During 1994, 304 prisoners under a sentence of death were received by State prison systems from the courts.

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