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2002 Cap. Punishment 1 (2002)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2002 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised 2/4/04 th November 2003, NCJ 201848 Capital Punishment, 2002 By Thomas P. Bonczar and Tracy L. Snell BJS Statisticians Thirteen States executed 71 prisoners during 2002. The number executed was 5 greater than in 2001. Those executed during 2002 had been under sentence of death an average of 10 years and 7 months, 15 months less than that for inmates executed in 2001. At yearend 2002, 3,557 prisoners were under sentence of death. California held the largest number on death row (614), followed by Texas (450), Florida (366), and Pennsylvania (241). Twenty-four people were under a Federal death sentence. During 2002, 27 States and the Federal prison system received 159 prisoners under sentence of death. Texas (37 admissions), California (14), Alabama (11), Florida (10), and Pennsylvania (9) accounted for more than half of those sentenced in 2002. During 2002, 69 men and 2 women were executed: 53 whites and 18 blacks. The executed inmates included 6 Hispanics (all white). Seventy were carried out by lethal injection; one by electrocution. From January 1, 1977, to December 31, 2002, 820 inmates were executed by 32 States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Two-thirds of the executions occurred in 5 States: Texas (289), Virginia (87), Missouri (59), Oklahoma (55), and Florida (54). Status of death penalty, December 31, 2002 Number of prisoners Executions during 2002* under sentence of death Texas Oklahoma Missouri Georgia Virginia Ohio Florida South Carolina Alabama Mississippi North Carolina Louisiana California 33 7 6 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 California Texas Florida Pennsylvania North Carolina Ohio Alabama Illinois Arizona Georgia Oklahoma Tennessee Louisiana 25 other jurisdictions Total 71 Total * At yearend 2002, 37 States and the Federal prison system held 3,557 prisoners under sentence of death, 20 fewer than at yearend 2001. * The 159 inmates received under sentence of death represent the small- est number of admissions since 1973. Persons under sentence of death 1992 White Black American Indian Asian Unknown race 1,532 1,044 25 15 2 2002 1,931 1,554 27 33 12 * The 364 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 12% of inmates with a known ethnicity. * At yearend the youngest death-row inmate was 18; the oldest was 87. 614 450 366 241 206 205 191 159 120 112 112 95 86 600 Jurisdictions without a death penalty Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin 3,557 * Fifty-one women were under sentence of death in 2002, up from 36 in 1992. * After declining for two years, the number of executions increased to 71 during 2002. * Of the 6,912 people under sentence of death between 1977 and 2002, 12% were executed, 4% died by causes other than execution, and 33% received other dispositions. * The number of States authorizing lethal injection increased from 22 in 1992 to 37 in 2002. In 2002, 99% of executions were by lethal injection, compared to two-thirds in 1992. * Since 1977, 654 of the 820 execu- tions (80%) were by lethal injection. *For 2003 data on executions, see page 11.

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