Death Penalty Statistics From 1976 (new DP) through 2008: 600,000 homicides in the US (see next slide for more details) 8,000 death sentences in the US (only 1 in 75 homicides results in a death sentence) 1136 executions in the US (only 1 in 550 homicides results in an execution)

Declining homicides and homicide rates since ,000+ homicides since DP reinstated in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,692 Death Penalty Statistics

The huge growth of death row, and the recent decline

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Executions continued a long-term drop in 2008 with 37

Death Penalty Statistics The decline, re-emergence, and new decline of the DP

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The top 8 post-Furman execution states

Death Penalty Statistics In 2007, 42 persons in 10 states were executed in Texas; 3 each in Alabama and Oklahoma; 2 each in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee; and 1 each in South Dakota, Georgia, South Carolina, and Arizona Of persons executed in 2007: were white (includes Hispanic, Asian, Native American) were black All 42 inmates executed in 2007 were men Lethal injection was used in 41 executions in execution was by electrocution.

Death Penalty Statistics Death row goes to zero with Furman. Steady buildup comes from: Incr sentences thru 1970s & 1980s + very slow incr in exec Then levels off in 1990s, followed by decreasing sentences and exec Two features continued from the early 1900s: Southernization of the dp Racialization of the dp (min/white)

Death Penalty Statistics Furman: arbitrary, capricious, discrim DP concentrated in urban areas of southern and western states with large minority pops - (Hous, LA, Atlanta, Phoenix, etc.) Smaller numbers in Phil, Cleveland, Chicago, etc. Very rare everywhere else!! Who? Young, Poor, Males, Uneducated, Unattached, Disprop min/white, Mostly not repeat offenders (90% +)