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2019 Cap. Punishment 1 (2019)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2019 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics June 2021, NCJ 300381 Capital Punishment, 2019 - Statistical Tables Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician year-end 2019, a total of 29 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) held 2,570 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 56 (2%) fewer than at year-end 2018. During 2019, the number of prisoners under sentence of death declined for the 19th consecutive year. California (28%), Florida (13%), and Texas (8%) held about half of the prisoners under sentence of death in the United States on December 31, 2019. The BOP held 61 prisoners under sentence of death at year-end. Seven states executed a total of 22 prisoners in 2019. Texas executed 9 prisoners, which accounted for 41% of the executions carried out in 2019. This report presents statistics on persons who were under sentence of death or were executed in 2019, and on state and federal death penalty laws. At year-end 2019, a total of 32 states and the federal government authorized the death penalty (map 1). MAP 1 States with and without death penalty statutes, year-end 2019 *Had the death penalty as of December 31, 2019, and carried out an execution in 2019 Q Had the death penalty as of December 31, 2019, but did not carry out an execution in 2019 Q Had no death penalty as of December 31, 2019 i-rr i-rn A H Note: See table 2 for details on states that authorized the death penalty. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS-8), 2019. BIS ' . D

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