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2011 Cap. Punishment 1 (2011)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2011 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Revised November 3, 2014 July 2013, NCJ 242185 Capital Punishment, 2011 - Statistical Tables Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician t yearend 2011, 35 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons held 3,082 inmates under sentence of death, which was 57 fewer than at yearend 2010 (figure 1). This represents the eleventh consecutive year in which the number of inmates under sentence of death decreased. Four states (California, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania) held more than half of all inmates on death row on December 31, 2011. The Federal Bureau of Prisons held 56 inmates under sentence of death at yearend. Of prisoners under sentence of death at yearend, 55% were white and 42% were black. The 387 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 14% of inmates with a known ethnicity. Ninety-eight percent of inmates under sentence of death were male, and 2% were female. The race and sex of inmates under sentence of death has remained relatively unchanged since 2000. Among inmates for whom legal status at the time of the capital offense was available, 40% had an active criminal justice status. Less than half of these inmates were on parole, about a quarter were on probation, and the remaining inmates had charges pending, were incarcerated, had escaped from incarceration, or had some other criminal justice status. Criminal history patterns of death row inmates differed by race and Hispanic origin. More black inmates had a prior felony conviction (72%), compared to Hispanic (64%) or white (62%) inmates. Similar percentages of white (9%), black (8%), and Hispanic (6%) inmates had a prior homicide conviction. A slightly higher percentage of Hispanic (310%) and black (30%) inmates were on probation or parole at the time of their capital offense, compared to 23% of white inmates. FIGURE 1 Status of the death penalty, December 31,2011 Executions during 2011 Texas Alabama Ohio Georgia Arizona Florida Mississippi Oklahoma Missouri Delaware South Carolina Virginia Idaho Number of prisoners under sentence of death on 12/31/2011 California 7( Florida 3( Texas 3( Pennsylvania 2( AlabamaI North Carolina 1 Ohio 1' Arizona 1 Georgia Louisiana Tennessee Nevada Oklahoma Mississippi Federal Bureau of Prisons 21 other jurisdictions* 3: Jurisdictions with no death penalty on 12/31/2011 Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Illinois Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Jersey North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin Total 43 Total 3,082 *New Mexico repealed the death penalty for offenses committed after July 1, 2009. As of December 31,2011, two men were under previously imposed death sentences. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS-8), 2011. l F+ 4A /I 0/ BIS

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