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2001 Cap. Punishment 1 (2001)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs December 2002, NCJ 197020 Capital Punishment 2001 By Tracy L. Snell and Laura M. Maruschak BJS Statisticians Fifteen States and the Federal Govern- ment executed 66 prisoners during 2001. The number executed was 19 fewer than in 2000. Those executed during 2001 had been under sentence of death an average of 11 years and 10 months, 5 months more than that for inmates executed in 2000. At yearend 2001, 3,581 prisoners were under sentence of death. California held the largest number on death row (603), followed by Texas (453), Florida (372), and Pennsylvania (241). Nineteen people were under a Federal death sentence. During 2001, 27 States and the Federal prison system received 155 prisoners under sentence of death. Texas (26 admissions), California (24), Florida (15), and North Carolina (14) accounted for more than half of those sentenced in 2001. During 2001, 63 men and 3 women were executed: 48 whites, 17 blacks, and 1 American Indian. The executed inmates included 3 Hispanics (all white). All of the executions were carried out by lethal injection. From January 1, 1977, to December 31, 2001, 749 inmates were executed by 32 States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Nearly two-thirds of the executions occurred in 5 States: Texas (256), Virginia (83), Missouri (53), Florida (51), and Oklahoma (48). Status of death penalty, December 31, 2001 Number of prisoners Executions during 2001* under sentence of death Oklahoma Texas Missouri North Carolina Georgia Federal Government Indiana Delaware Virginia Ohio Arkansas Florida California Nevada New Mexico Washington Total 18 17 7 5 4 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 California Texas Florida Pennsylvania North Carolina Ohio Alabama Illinois Arizona Georgia Oklahoma Tennessee Louisiana Nevada 1 24 other jurisdictions 66 Total * At yearend 2001, 37 States and the Federal prison system held 3,581 prisoners under sentence of death, 20 fewer than at yearend 2000. * The 155 inmates received under sentence of death represent the small- est number of admissions since 1973. Persons under sentence of death 1991 White Black American Indian Asian Unknown race 2001 1,464 1,969 987 1,538 25 28 14 33 1 13 * The 358 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 11% of inmates with a known ethnicity. * At yearend the youngest death-row inmate was 19; the oldest was 86. 603 453 372 241 216 203 186 158 126 116 113 96 88 86 524 Jurisdictions without a death penalty Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin 3,581 * Fifty-one women were under sentence of death in 2001, up from 36 in 1991. * The number of executions declined in 2001 for the second straight year and was the lowest since 1996. * Of the 6,754 people under sentence of death between 1977 and 2001, 11% were executed, 4% died by causes other than execution, and 32% received other dispositions. * The number of States authorizing lethal injection increased from 22 in 1991 to 36 in 2001. In 2001, all executions were by lethal injection, compared to half in 1991. * Since 1977, 584 of the 749 execu- tions (78%) were by lethal injection. *For 2002 data on executions, see page 12.

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