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2013 Cap. Punishment 1 (2013)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2013 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2014, NCJ 248448 Capital Punishment, 2013 - Statistical Tables Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician t yearend 2013, 35 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons held 2,979 inmates under sentence of death, which was 32 fewer than at yearend 2012 (figure 1). This represents the thirteenth consecutive year in which the number of inmates under sentence of death decreased. Five states (California, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Alabama) held 60% of all inmates on death row on December 31, 2013. The Federal Bureau of Prisons held 56 inmates under sentence of death at yearend. Of prisoners under sentence of death at yearend 2013, 56% were white and 42% were black. The 389 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 stable since 2000. FIGURE 1 Status of the death penalty, December 31, 2013 Number of prisoners under sentence of death, Executions during 2013 12/31/2013 Texas 16 California Florida 7 Florida Oklahoma 6 Texas Ohio 3 Pennsylvania Missouri 2 Alabama Arizona 2 North Carolina Alabama I Ohio Georgia I Arizona Virginia I Louisiana Georgia Nevada Tennessee Federal Bureau of Prisons Mississippi Oklahoma 21 other jurisdictions* Among inmates for whom legal status at the time of the capital offense was available, 41% had an active criminal justice status: 4 in 10 of these inmates were on parole; nearly 3 in 10 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 (73%), compared to Hispanic (65%) or white (64%) inmates. Similar percentages of white (9%), black (10%), and Hispanic (7%) inmates had a prior homicide conviction. A slightly higher percentage of Hispanic (32%) and black (310%) inmates were on probation or parole at the time of their capital offense, compared to 24% of white inmates. Jurisdictions without death penalty, 12/31/2013 Alaska District of Columbia Hawaii Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Jersey North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin Total 39 Total 2,979 *New Mexico repealed the death penalty for offenses committed on or after July 1,2009; Connecticut repealed the death penalty for offenses committed on or after April 25,2012; and Maryland repealed the death penalty effective October 1, 2013. As of December 31,2013, 2 men in New Mexico, 10 men in Connecticut, and 5 men in Maryland were a under previously imposed sentence of death. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS-8), 2013. (I -+ w 1A A (A BIs

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