Factsheet about the death penalty

! !1 Updated: September 19, 2014 DEATH PENALTY STATES (32) Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma... More

! !1 Updated: September 19, 2014 DEATH PENALTY STATES (32) Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington Wyoming U.S. Gov’t U.S. Military ! NON-DEATH PENALTY STATES (18) Alaska Connecticut* Hawaii Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland* Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Jersey New Mexico* New York North Dakota Rhode Island Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin District of Columbia *Inmates remain on death row. NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS SINCE 1976: 1,389 Race of Defendants Executed Race of Victims in Death Penalty Cases • White: 775 • Black: 480 • Hispanic: 110 • Other: 24 Over 75% of the murder victims in cases resulting in an execution were white, even though nationally only 50% of murder victims generally are white. Less