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2000 Cap. Punishment 1 (2000)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2000 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs revised 02-21-02, tld December 2001, NCJ 190598 Capital Punishment 2000 By Tracy L. Snell BJS Statistician Fourteen States executed 85 prisoners during 2000. The number executed was 13 fewer than in 1999. Those executed during 2000 had been under sentence of death an average of 11 years and 5 months, 6 months less than that for inmates executed in 1999. At yearend 2000, 3,593 prisoners were under sentence of death. California held the largest number on death row (586), followed by Texas (450), Florida, (371), and Pennsylvania (238). Eighteen people were under a Federal death sentence. During 2000, 27 States and the Federal prison system received 214 prisoners under sentence of death. Texas (34 admissions), California (31), Florida (20), North Carolina (18), and Pennsylvania (12) accounted for more than half of those sentenced in 2000. During 2000, 83 men and 2 women were executed: 49 whites, 35 blacks, and 1 American Indian. The executed inmates included 6 Hispanics (all white). Eighty of the executions were carried out by lethal injection and 5 by electrocution. From January 1, 1977, to December 31, 2000, 683 executions took place in 31 States. Sixty-five percent of the executions occurred in 5 States: Texas (239), Virginia (81), Florida (50), Missouri (46), and Oklahoma (30). Status of death penalty, December 31, 2000 Number of prisoners Executions during 2000* under sentence of death Texas Oklahoma Virginia Florida Missouri Alabama Arizona Arkansas Delaware Louisiana North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee California California Texas Florida Pennsylvania North Carolina Ohio Alabama Illinois Oklahoma Georgia Arizona Tennessee Louisiana Nevada Missouri 23 other jurisdictions 85 Total • At yearend 2000, 37 States and the Federal prison system held 3,593 prisoners under sentence of death, 1.5% more than at yearend 1999. Persons under sentence of death 1990 White Black American Indian Asian Unknown race 2000 1,379 1,990 947 1,535 25 29 15 27 1 12 • The 339 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 11% of inmates with a known ethnicity. • Fifty-four women were under sentence of death in 2000, up from 35 in 1990. • At yearend the youngest death-row inmate was 18; the oldest was 85. Jurisdictions without a death penalty Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin 3,593 • 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. • Of the 6,588 people under sentence of death between 1977 and 2000, 10% were executed, 3% died by causes other than execution, and 32% received other dispositions. • The number of States authorizing lethal injection increased from 21 in 1990 to 36 in 2000. In 2000, 9 in 10 executions were by lethal injection, compared to 5 in 10 in 1990. • Since 1977, 518 of the 683 execu- tions (76%) were by lethal injection. * For 2001 data on executions, see page 12.

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