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As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions , appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations , or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [ 2 ]
In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (14 years and 10 months) between sentencing and execution. [5] Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution. [6] There were 2,721 people on death row in the United States on October 1, 2018. [7]
Time on death row Other; Robin Lee Row [45] Row was convicted of the 1992 deaths of her husband and two children. Prosecutors say she set the family home on fire in order to collect insurance money. [45] 31 years, 2 months and 5 days Robin Row had two other children, one of whom died supposedly of sudden infant death syndrome.
Six men Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde were convicted and sentenced to death penalty in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4]
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
63.8% of white death row inmates, 72.8% of black death row inmates, 65.4% of Latino death row inmates, and 63.8% of Native American death row inmates – or approximately 67% of death row inmates overall – have a prior felony conviction. [183] Approximately 13.5% of death row inmates are of Hispanic or Latino descent.
e Death penalty abolished in 2019; one prisoner, Michael K. Addison, remains on death row under sentence of death. [36] f Death penalty abolished in 2007. [37] All remaining inmate's death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment by Gov. Jon Corzine immediately upon abolition. g Death penalty abolished in 2009.
Between 1973 and 2005, 123 people in 25 states were released from death row when new evidence of their innocence emerged. [103] Whether all of these exonerations are cases of actual innocence rather than technical exonerations of the defendants due to legal issues in their cases that allow their convictions to be legally quashed is disputed by ...