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2017 Cap. Punishment 1 (2017)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2017 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics MSELECTED FINDINGS July 2019 Capital Punishment, 2017: Selected Findings Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician NCJ 253060 his report presents selected findings from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' annual data collection on capital punishment. It includes statistics on the number of prisoners executed each year from 1977 through 2017, the number and race of prisoners under sentence of death at year-end 2017 by state, and the average elapsed time from sentence to execution by year from 1977 through 2017. BJS obtained data on prisoners under sentence of death from the department of corrections in each jurisdiction that authorized the death penalty as of December 31, 2017. The status of the death penalty was obtained from the office of the attorney general in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government. Data covered all persons under sentence of death at any time during the year who were held in a state or federal non-military correctional facility. It included capital offenders transferred from prison to mental hospitals and those who may have escaped from custody. It excluded persons whose death sentences had been overturned in court, regardless of their current incarceration status. HIGHLIGHTS * At year-end 2017, a total of 32 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) held 2,703 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 94 (3%) less than at year-end 2016. In 2017, the number of prisoners held under sentence of death declined for the 17th consecutive year. Eighteen states held fewer prisoners under sentence of death at year-end 2017 than at year-end 2016, 3 states and the BOP held more prisoners, and 11 states held the same number. Three states accounted for 59% of the national decline in prisoners under sentence of death in 2017: Florida (down 33 prisoners), Delaware (down 12), and Texas (down 10). FIGURE 1 Annual number of prisoners executed under civil authority in the United States, 1977-2017 Number 100 80 60 40 20 0 '77 '80 '85 '90 '95 '00 '05 '10 '15 '17 Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics - Capital Punishment, 1977-2017. See table 3 for counts of prisoners executed. BIS Thirty-four states and the federal government authorized the death penalty at year-end 2017; two of these states (NewYork and Wyoming) had no prisoners under sentence of death during the year. Prisoners executed in 2017 had been under sentence of death for an average of 20 years and 3 months, which was an increase of 3 years and 3 months from 2016 and an increase of 7 years and 6 months from 2007. * Of the 23 prisoners executed in 2017, a total of 16 (more than two-thirds) had been sentenced in 1999 or earlier. EMMMEWASM

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