1. 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)

2. Declining homicides and homicide rates since 1991 600,000+ homicides since DP reinstated in 1976 19768.818,780 19778.819,120 19789.019,560 19799.721,460 1980 10.223,040 19819.822,520 19829.121,010 19838.319,308 19847.918,692 19857.918,976 19868.620,613 19878.320,096 19888.420,675 19898.721,500 19909.423,438 19919.824,703 19929.323,760 19939.524,526 19949.023,326 19958.221,606 19967.419,645 19976.818,208 19986.316,974 19995.715,522 20005.515,586 20015.616,039 20025.616,229 20035.716,582 20045.516,137 20055.616,692 Death Penalty Statistics

4. The huge growth of death row, and the recent decline

5. Death Penalty Statistics

7. Executions continued a long-term drop in 2008 with 37

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

9. Death Penalty Statistics. 37

10. Death Penalty Statistics

11. The top 8 post-Furman execution states

12. Death Penalty Statistics In 2007, 42 persons in 10 states were executed -- 26 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: -- 28 were white (includes Hispanic, Asian, Native American) -- 14 were black All 42 inmates executed in 2007 were men Lethal injection was used in 41 executions in 2007 1 execution was by electrocution.

13. 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)

14. 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% +)