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2022 Cap. Punishment 1 (2022)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2022 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2024, NCJ 309498 Capital Punishment, 2022 - Statistical Tables Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician At yearend 2022, a total of 26 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) held 2,270 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 86 (4%) fewer than at yearend 2021 (figure 1). This represented the 22nd consecutive year in which the number of inmates under sentence of death declined. California (29%), Florida (13%), and Texas (8%) collectively held more than half of the prisoners under sentence of death in the United States on December 31, 2022 (table 1). The FBOP held 41 prisoners under sentence of death at yearend. On December 31, 2022, 30 states and the federal government had death penalty statutes. In December 2022, the governor of Oregon commuted the death sentences of 17 inmates, leaving no inmates under sentence of death in Oregon at yearend. Six states (Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Missouri, Alabama, and Mississippi) executed a total of 18 prisoners in 2022. All executed prisoners were male. Oklahoma and Texas each executed five prisoners, which accounted for more than half of the executions carried out in 2022. This report presents statistics on prisoners who were under sentence of death in 2022 and historical trends in executions. For information on changes in state and federal capital statutes, see Status of the Death Penalty in 2022. FIGURE 1 Number of prisoners under sentence of death, 1953-2022 Number 4,000 3,500 2,500 2,000__ __ 1,500 1,000 1500 -------------- - - - -------------- 500 0 1953 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 20202022 Year Note: Data on the number of prisoners under sentence of death at yearend have been collected since 1953. See appendix table 1 for counts. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS-8), 1953-2022. -I w -I -S w -I ~6 A w -I w 0* BIS

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