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2012 Cap. Punishment 1 (2012)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2012 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau ofJustice Statistics Revised November 3, 2014 May 2014, NCJ 245789 Capital Punishment, 2012 - Statistical Tables Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician At yearend 2012, 35 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons held 3,033 inmates under sentence of death, which was 32 fewer than at yearend 2011 (figure 1). This represents the twelfth 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, 2012. The Federal Bureau of Prisons held 56 inmates under sentence of death at yearend 2012. Of prisoners under sentence of death at yearend 2012, 56% were white and 42% were black. The 384 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. About 4 in 10 of these inmates were on parole, and nearly 3 in 10 were on probation. 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 (73%), compared to Hispanic (64%) or white (63%) inmates. Similar percentages of white (9%), black (9%), and Hispanic (6%) inmates had a prior homicide conviction. A slightly higher percentage of Hispanic (32%) and black (30%) inmates were on probation or parole at the time of their capital offense, compared to 24% of white inmates. FIGURE 1 Status of the death penalty, December 31, 2012 Executions during 2012 Texas 15 Mississippi 6 Oklahoma 6 Arizona 6 Ohio 3 Florida 3 South Dakota 2 Delaware 1 Idaho 1 Number of prisoners under sentence of death on 12/31/2012 California 712 Florida 403 Texas 290 Pennsylvania 200 Alabama 191 North Carolina 152 Ohio 139 Arizona 125 Georgia 95 Louisiana 85 Tennessee 83 Nevada 81 Federal Bureau of Prisons 56 Oklahoma 55 South Carolina 50 20 other jurisdictions* 316 Jurisdictions with no death penalty on 12/31/2012 Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Illinois Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Jersey North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin f-u 4A 4A BJS Total 43 Total 3,033 *New Mexico repealed the death penalty for offenses committed on or after July 1, 2009, and Connecticut repealed the death penalty for offenses committed on or after April 25,2012. As of December 31, 2012, 2 men in New Mexico and 10 men in Connecticut were under previously imposed death sentences. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS-8), 2012.

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