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1996 Cap. Punishment 1 (1996)

handle is hein.death/cpshm1996 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs revised 2/27/98 December 1997 NCJ-167031 Capital Punishment 1996 By Tracy L. Snell Highlights BJS Statistician Nineteen States executed 45 prisoners during 1996. The number executed was 11 fewer than in 1995. The pris- oners executed during 1996 had been under sentence of death an average of 10 years and 5 months, 9 months less than that for inmates executed in 1995. At yearend 1996, 3,219 prisoners were under sentence of death. California held the largest number on death row (454), followed by Texas (438), Florida (373), and Pennsylvania (203). Eleven prisoners were under a Federal sentence of death. During 1996, 32 State and Federal prison systems received 299 prisoners under sentence of death. California (39 admissions), Texas (33), Florida and North Carolina (25 each) accounted for 41% of those sen- tenced to death. During 1996, 45 men were executed. Of those executed, 27 were non- Hispanic whites; 14 were non-Hispanic blacks; 2, white Hispanics; and 2, whites with unknown Hispanic origin. Thirty-six of the executions were car- ried out by lethal injection, 7 by From January 1, 1977, to December 31, 1996, 358 executions took place in 27 States. Two-thirds of these execu- tions occurred in 6 States: Texas (107), Florida (38), Virginia (37), Mis- souri and Louisiana (23 each), and Georgia (22). For an advance count of executions in 1997, see page 12. Status of the death penalty, December 31, 1996 Executions during 1996 Virginia Missouri South Carolina Delaware Texas Arizona California Florida Georgia Oklahoma Alabama Arkansas Illinois Indiana Louisiana Nebraska Nevada Oregon Utah Number of prisoners under sentence of death California Texas Florida Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois North Carolina Alabama Oklahoma Arizona Georgia Missouri Tennessee Nevada South Carolina Louisiana Mississippi 18 other jurisdictions 45 Total * At yearend 1996, 34 States and the Federal prison system held 3,219 prisoners under sentence of death, 5% more than at yearend 1995. Persons under sentence of death, by race 1986 1996 White Black Native American Asian Other 1,013 762 16 9 0 1,820 1,349 24 18 8 * The 259 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 8.8% of inmates with a known ethnicity. * Forty-eight women were under a sentence of death in 1996. Jurisdictions without a death penalty Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin 3,219 * Among persons for whom arrest information was available, the aver- age age at time of arrest was 28; 2% of inmates were age 17 or younger. * At yearend, the youngest inmate was 17; the oldest was 81. * Of the 5,534 people under sen- tence of death between 1977 and 1996, 6.5% were executed, 2.6% died by causes other than execution, and 32.7% received other dispositions. * The number of States authorizing lethal injection increased from 17 in 1986 to 32 in 1996. In 1996, 80% of all executions were by lethal injec- tion, compared to 61% in 1986.

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