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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 (DPIC) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to the death penalty. Founded in 1990, DPIC is primarily focused on the application of capital punishment in the United States.
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 Information Center has available more extensive reports on a variety of issues, including: • “Lethal Election: How the U.S. Electoral Process Increases the Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty” (July 2024)
2021 - Ohio bans the imposition of the death penalty on defendants who are severely mentally ill at the time of the offense. 2023 - The Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on Senate Bill 101 that, if passed, would abolish the state’s death penalty.
Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
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.
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.