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1998 Cap. Punishment 1 (1998)

handle is hein.death/cpshm1998 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised 1/6/00 December 1999, NCJ 179012 Capital Punishment 1998 By Tracy L. Snell BJS Statistician Eighteen States executed 68 prisoners during 1998. The number executed was 6 fewer than in 1997. The prisoners executed during 1998 had been under sentence of death an average of 10 years and 10 months, 3 months less than that for inmates executed in 1997. At yearend 1998, 3,452 prisoners were under sentence of death. California held the largest number on death row (512), followed by Texas (451), Florida (372), and Pennsylvania (224). Nineteen prisoners were under a Federal sentence of death. During 1998, 30 States and the Federal prison system received 285 prisoners under sentence of death. Texas (39 admissions), California (31), Alabama and Florida (25 each) accounted for 42% of those sentenced to death. During 1998, 66 men and 2 women were executed. Of those executed, 35 were non-Hispanic whites; 18 were non-Hispanic blacks; 8, white Hispan- ics; 5, whites with unknown Hispanic origin; 1, American Indian; and 1, Asian. Sixty of the executions were carried out by lethal injection, 7 by electrocution, and 1 by lethal gas. From January 1, 1977, to December 31, 1998, 500 executions took place in 29 States. Nearly two-thirds of the executions occurred in 5 States: Texas (164), Virginia (59), Florida (43), Missouri (32), and Louisiana (24). Status of the death penalty, December 31, 1998 Executions durinq 1998* Texas Virginia South Carolina Arizona Florida Oklahoma Missouri North Carolina Alabama Arkansas California Georgia Illinois Indiana Maryland Montana Nevada Washington Total Number of prisoners under sentence of death 20 California 13 Texas 7 Florida 4 Pennsylvania 4 Ohio 4 North Carolina 3 Alabama 3 Illinois 1 Oklahoma 1 Arizona 1 Georgia 1 Tennessee 1 Missouri 1 Nevada 1 Louisiana 1 South Carolina 1 Mississippi 1 21 other jurisdictions 68 Total - At yearend 1998, 37 States and the Federal prison system held 3,452 prisoners under sentence of death, 4% more than in 1997. Persons under sentence of death, by race White Black American Indian Asian Other 1,381 942 25 14 1 1998 1,906 1,486 29 18 13 - The 314 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 10% of inmates with a known ethnicity. - Forty-eight women were under a sentence of death in 1998, up from 35 in 1990. Jurisdictions without a death penalty Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin 3.452 - Among persons for whom arrest information was available, the average age at time of arrest was 28; 2% of inmates were age 17 or younger. - At yearend the youngest inmate was 18; the oldest was 83. - Of the 6,089 people under sentence of death between 1977 and 1998, 8.2% were executed, 2.9% died by causes other than execution, and 32.2% received other dispositions. - The number of States authorizing lethal injection increased from 21 in 1990 to 34 in 1998. In 1998, 88% of all executions were by lethal injec- tion, compared to 52% in 1990. *For preliminary 1999 data on executions, see page 12.

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