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DPI’s database of more than 9, 800 death sentences imposed between the Supreme Court ruling striking down U.S. death penalty laws in 1972 and January 1, 2024 details the systemic arbitrariness, bias, and error of the modern U.S. death penalty.
State by State. The Death Penalty Information Center provides essential statistics like execution numbers, death row population, and murder rates for each state. We also provide historical background on the death penalty in each state, including abolitionist states.
Those executed in 2023 spent an average of nearly 23 years on death row, the longest average time in the modern era of the death penalty. More than half (54%) of the prisoners had been on death row for more than 20 years, in violation of international human rights norms.
The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2021 Year End Report was released on December 16, 2021, and received extensive coverage in hundreds of print, online, television, and radio news outlets across the United States and around the world.
The Death Penalty in 2022: Year End Report Death Penalty Information Center 2 Introduction In a year awash with incendiary political advertising that drove the public’s perception of rising crime to record highs, public sup-port for capital punishment and jury verdicts for death remained near fifty-year lows.
The year’s executions were geographically isolated, with just five states, four of them in the South, performing any executions this year. The Gallup poll found public support for the death penalty near a half - century low, with opposition at its highest level since the 1960s.
As of July 2021, the death penalty is authorized by 27 states and the federal government – including the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. military – and prohibited in 23 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The public’s understanding of the grave dangers of wrongful capital convictions and death sentences deepened in 2021 as two innocent prisoners were exonerated more than 25 years after being wrongfully sentenced to die, and a multi-year Death Penalty Information Center review of more than 9,600 death sentences imposed since 1972 discovered 11 ...
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Founded in 1990, the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center is a national nonprofit organization that provides up-to-date analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. It is the go-to source for facts and figures about the death penalty. Learn More.