About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

1999 Cap. Punishment 1 (1999)

handle is hein.death/cpshm1999 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs December 2000, NCJ 184795 Capital Punishment 1999 By Tracy L. Snell BJS Statistician Twenty States executed 98 prisoners during 1999. The number executed was 30 greater than in 1998 and was the largest annual number since the 105 executed in 1951. The prisoners executed during 1999 had been under sentence of death an average of 11 years and 11 months, 13 months more than that for inmates executed in 1998. At yearend 1999, 3,527 prisoners were under sentence of death. California held the largest number on death row (553), followed by Texas (460), Florida (365), and Pennsylvania (230). Twenty were under a Federal death sentence. During 1999, 32 States and the Federal prison system received 272 prisoners under sentence of death. Texas (48 admissions), California (43), North Carolina (24) and Florida (20) accounted for half of those sentenced to death in 1999. During 1999, 98 men were executed: 61 whites, 33 blacks, 2 American Indians, and 2 Asians. The executed inmates included 9 Hispanics (8 white and 1 American Indian). Ninety-four of the executions were carried out by lethal injection; 3, by electrocution; and 1, by lethal gas. From January 1, 1977, to December 31, 1999, 598 executions took place in 30 States. Sixty-four percent of the executions occurred in 5 States: Texas (199), Virginia (73), Florida (44), Missouri (41), and Louisiana (25). Status of the death penalty, December 31, 1999 Executions durina 1999* Texas Virginia Missouri Arizona Oklahoma Arkansas North Carolina South Carolina Alabama California Delaware Florida Illinois Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Nevada Ohio Pennsylvania Utah Total Number of prisoners under sentence of death 35 California 14 Texas 9 Florida 7 Pennsylvania 6 North Carolina 4 Ohio 4 Alabama 4 Illinois 2 Oklahoma 2 Georgia 2 Arizona 1 Tennessee 1 Nevada 1 Louisiana 1 Missouri 1 South Carolina 1 Mississippi 1 1 21 other jurisdictions 1 98 Total - At yearend 1999, 37 States and the Federal prison system held 3,527 prisoners under sentence of death, 2% more than in 1998. Persons under sentence of death, by race White Black American Indian Asian Other l qqN 1,379 945 25 15 1 1lqqq 1,948 1,514 28 24 13 - The 325 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 10% of inmates with a known ethnicity. - Fifty women were under a death sentence in 1999, 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 3,527 - 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 arrest. - At yearend the youngest inmate on death row was 18; the oldest was 84. - Of the 6,365 people under sentence of death between 1977 and 1999, 9% were executed, 3% died by causes other than execution, and 32% received other dispositions. - The number of States authorizing lethal injection increased from 20 in 1989 to 34 in 1999. In 1999, 96% of all executions were by lethal injection, compared to 44% in 1989. *For preliminary 2000 data on executions, see page 12. 1990 1999

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most