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2005 Cap. Punishment 1 (2005)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2005 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised, 1/30/07 December 2006, NCJ 215083 Capital Punishment, 2005 By Tracy L. Snell BJS Statistician Sixteen States executed 60 prisoners during 2005. The number executed was 1 more than in 2004. Those executed during 2005 had been under sentence of death an average of 12 years and 3 months, or 15 months longer than the period for inmates executed in 2004. At yearend 2005, 3,254 prisoners were under sentence of death. California held the largest number on death row (646), followed by Texas (411), Florida (372), and Pennsylvania (218). Thirty-seven people were under a Federal death sen- te nce. During 2005, 24 States and the Federal prison system received 128 prisoners under sentence of death. Admissions in California (23), Florida (15), Texas (14), and Alabama (12) accounted for half of those sentenced to death in 2005. In 2005, 59 men and 1 woman were executed. The racial/ethnic distribution of those executed included 38 whites, 19 blacks, and 3 Hispanics (all white). All of the executions were carried out by lethal injection. From January 1, 1977, to December 31, 2005, 1,004 inmates were executed by 33 States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Nearly two-thirds of the execu- tions occurred in 5 States: Texas (355), Virginia (94), Oklahoma (79), Missouri (66), and Florida (60). Executions during 2005a Texas Indiana Missouri North Carolina Ohio Alabama Oklahoma Georgia South Carolina California Connecticut Arkansas Delaware Florida Maryland Mississippi Total Number of prisoners under sentence of deathb 19 California 5 Texas 5 Florida 5 Pennsylvania 4 Ohio 4 Alabama 4 North Carolina 3 Arizona 3 Georgia 2 Tennessee 1 Oklahoma 1 Louisiana 1 Nevada 1 24 other jurisdictions 60 Total aFor 2006 data on executions, see page 11. bSee table 4 for complete list. At yearend 2005, 36 States and the Federal prison system held 3,254 prisoners under sentence of death, 66 fewer than at yearend 2004. This represents the fifth consecutive year that the population has decreased. - Of those under sentence of death, 56% were white, 42% were black, and 2% were of other races. Persons under sentence of death 1995 2005 White 1,742 1,805 Black 1,296 1,372 American Indian 24 31 Asian 19 34 Unknown race 10 12 - The 362 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 13% of inmates with a known ethnicity. Jurisdictions without a death penalty 646 Alaska 411 District of Columbia 372 Hawaii 218 Iowa 199 Maine 189 Massachusetts 174 Michigan 109 Minnesota 107 North Dakota 103 Rhode Island 86 Vermont 83 West Virginia 82 Wisconsin 3,254 - Fifty-two women were under sen- tence of death in 2005, up from 47 in 1995. - The 128 inmates received under sentence of death during 2005 repre- sent the smallest number of admis- sions since 1973. - Of the 7,320 people under sentence of death between 1977 and 2005, 14% were executed, 4% died by causes other than execution, and 37% received other dispositions. - The number of States authorizing lethal injection increased from 32 in 1995 to 37 in 2005. In 2005, all of the executions were by lethal injection, compared to 88% in 1995. * Since 1977, 836 of the 1,004 execu- tions (83%) were by lethal injection. Status of the death penalty, December 31, 2005

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