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2018 Cap. Punishment 1 (2018)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2018 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics September 2020, NCJ 254786 Capital Punishment, 2018 - Statistical Tables Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician t year-end 2018, a total of 30 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) held 2,628 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 75 (3%) fewer than at year-end 2017. In 2018, the number of prisoners under sentence of death declined for the 18th consecutive year. Thirteen states and the BOP received a total of 38 prisoners in 2018 who were under death sentences. California (28%), Florida (13%), and Texas (8%) held about half of the prisoners under death sentences in the United States at year-end 2018. Eight states executed a total of 25 prisoners in 2018, with Texas accounting for more than half (13) of the executions. This report presents statistics on persons who were under sentence of death or were executed in 2018, and on state and federal death-penalty laws. At year-end 2018, a total of 34 states and the federal government authorized the death penalty (map 1). Each jurisdiction determines the offenses for which the death penalty can be imposed. Once a person has been convicted of a capital offense, a separate sentencing hearing is held. During the sentencing hearing, a jury will consider aggravating and mitigating factors as defined by state or federal law. Before a person can be sentenced to death, a jury must find that at least one aggravating factor is present and that mitigating factors do not outweigh the aggravating factor(s). MAP1 States with and without death-penalty statutes, year-end 2018 D Had a statute authorizing the death penalty as of December 31, 2018 and carried out an execution in 2018 D Had a statute authorizing the death penalty as of December 31, 2018 but did not carry out an execution in 2018 * Had a statute authorizing the death penalty as of December 31, 2018 that had been invalidated by the state's highest court but had not been repealed by the legislature * Had no statute authorizing the death penalty as of December 31, 2018 1& A Note: See table 2 for details on states that authorized the death penalty. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS-8), 2018. B1S40 i-rn i-rn iun H6

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