NAACP

"Death Row USA," Winter 2002

The latest edition of this NAACP Legal Defense Fund publication is now available on DPIC's Web site.  The report provides the number of death row inmates by state, and information on race and gender.

  Number of inmates on death row declined:

January 1, 2001 - 3,726

January 1, 2002 - 3,711 

Reversing a trend of increasing death row populations since 1976, the overall number of inmates on death rows across the country has decreased from last year.  In 65% of the jurisdictions with the death penalty, the number of death row inmates either decreased or remained the same compared to last year.

The only states with an increase in the size of their death row were:  California (+16)

Texas (+7)

Arizona (+6)

South Carolina (+6)

Pennsylvania (+4)

Delaware (+2) Mississippi (+2)

Ohio (+2)

Oregon (+2)

South Dakota (+2)

New Jersey (+1)

Tennessee (+1)