Fact book - Death penalty

STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY (36) Alabama Florida Louisiana New Hampshire* South Carolina Wyoming Arizona Georgia Maryland New Mexico South Dakota Arkansas Idaho Mississippi North Carolina Tennessee California Illinois Missouri Ohio Texas - plus Colorado Indiana Montana Oklahoma Utah U. S. Gov’t Connecticut Kansas* Nebraska Oregon Virginia U. S. Military* Delaware Kentucky Nevada Pennsylvania Washington *Indicates jurisdictions with no executions since 1976. STATES WITHOUT THE DEATH PENALTY (14) Alaska Massachusetts New York West Virginia - plus Hawaii Michigan North Dakota Wisconsin District of Columbia Iowa Minnesota Rhode Island Maine New Jersey Vermont 57% 7% 34% 2% Black - 383 Hispanic - 79 White - 633 Other - 24 Race of Defendants Executed Black 14% Other 2% White 79% Hispanic 5% About 80% of the murder victims in cases resulting in an execution were white, even though nationally only 50% of murder victims generally are white. Race of Victim in Death Penalty Cases 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 5 21 18 18 25 11 16 23 14 31 38 31 56 45 74 68 98 85 66 71 65 59 60 53 42 20 0 20 40 60 80 100 NumberofExecutions 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Number of Executions Total: 1119 1101 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 701 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: (202) 289 - 2275 Fax: (202) 289 - 7336 Email: dpic@deathpenaltyinfo. org http://www. deathpenaltyinfo. org DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER Facts About the Death Penalty August 15, 2008