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1995 Cap. Punishment 1 (1995)

handle is hein.death/cpshm1995 and id is 1 raw text is: 2 ~ ,j. '1?\ ~A ~ U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs December 1996, NCJ-1 62043 Capital Punishment 1995 By Tracy L. Snell BJS Statistician Sixteen States executed 56 prisoners during 1995. The number of persons executed was 25 greater than in 1994 and was the largest annual number since the 56 executed during 1960 and the 65 in 1957. The prisoners executed during 1995 had been under sentence of death an average of 11 years and 2 months, about 12 months more than the average for inmates executed the previous year. At yearend 1995, 3,054 prisoners were under sentence of death. California held the largest number of death row inmates (420), followed by Texas (404), Florida (362), and Pennsylvania (196). Eight prisoners were in Federal custody under a death sentence on December 31, 1995. Between January 1 and December 31, 1995, 26 State prison systems and the Federal prison system received 310 prisoners under sentence of death. Texas (40 admissions), California (36), North Carolina (34), and Florida (31) accounted for 45% of the inmates en- tering prison under a death sentence in 1995. During 1995, 56 persons in 16 States were executed - 19 in Texas; 6 in Missouri; 5 each in Illinois and Vir- ginia; 3 each in Florida and Okla- homa; 2 each in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania; and 1 each in Arizona, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana, and Status of the death penalty, December 31,1995 I:vvt, ti|n ,h, in, I OOK Texas Missouri Illinois Virginia Florida Oklahoma Alabama Arkansas Georgia North Carolina Pennsylvania Arizona Delaware Louisiana Montana South Carolina Total Number of prisoners I ,n, 4r f hfn,. nE tloolH California Texas Florida Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois Alabama North Carolina Oklahoma Arizona Georgia Tennessee Missouri 22 other jurisdictions 56 Total In 1995, 56 men were executed: 33 were white 22 were black 1 was Asian. The persons executed in 1995 were under sentence of death an average of 11 years and 2 months. e At yearend 1995, 34 States and the Federal prison system held 3,054 prisoners under sentence of death, 5.1% more than at yearend 1994. All had committed murder. * Of persons under sentence of death - 1,730 were white 1,275 were black 22 were Native American 19 were Asian 8 were classified as other race. Jurisdictions .ith, n et A a0ah 1nalt Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin 3,054 * Forty-eight women were under a sentence of death. * The 237 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 8.5% of inmates with a known ethnicity. * Among inmates under sentence of death and with available criminal histories, 2 in 3 had a prior felony conviction; 1 in 12 had a prior homi- cide conviction. * Among persons for whom arrest information was available, the aver- age age at time of arrest was 28; about 2% of inmates were age 17 or younger. * At yearend, the youngest inmate was 18; the oldest was 80. (a =IIa~l~ 'M . . 1 I A. I 00rtd ~I; l1 /~ I1 wlI1 IIIIIlIU tI ;UIIIIIII

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