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2020 Cap. Punishment 1 (2020)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2020 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2021, NCJ 302729 Capital Punishment, 2020 - Statistical Tables Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician t yearend 2020, a total of 28 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) held 2,469 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 94 (4%) fewer than at yearend 2019. During 2020, the number of prisoners under sentence of death declined for the twentieth consecutive year. California (28%), Florida (14%), and Texas (8%) held half of the prisoners under sentence of death in the United States on December 31, 2020. The BOP held 51 prisoners under sentence of death at yearend. Five states and the BOP executed a total of 17 prisoners in 2020. The BOP executed 10 prisoners, which accounted for 59% of the executions carried out in 2020. This report presents statistics on persons who were under sentence of death in 2020, state and federal death penalty laws in 2020, and historical trends in executions. At yearend 2020, a total of 31 states and the federal government authorized the death penalty (map 1). MAP 1 States with and without death penalty statutes, yearend 2020 UHad the death penalty as of December 31, 2020 and carried out an execution in 2020* Had the death penalty as of December 31, 2020 but did not carry out an execution in 2020 Q Had no death penalty as of December 31, 2020 N-u A NI Note: See table 2 for details on states that authorized the death penalty. *Not shown: Federal Bureau of Prisons, which carried out 10 executions in 2020. See table 1 for executions by jurisdiction. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS-8), 2020. BIS 0-

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