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The convictions or death sentences of 230 death-row prisoners had been reversed pending retrial, resentencing, or completion of the appeals process, meaning 2,373 prisoners were facing active death sentences, a decrease of seven over the previous quarter, and down 70 (2.9%) from the 2,443 prisoners facing active death sentences on April 1, 2019.
Death Row. Death Row Overview. Around 2, 250 prisoners currently face execution in the United States. The national death-row population has declined for 20 consecutive years, as sentence reversals, executions, and deaths by other causes are outpacing new death sentences.
As of January 1, 2023, there were 2,331 people on death row. As of December 1, twenty-one people had been sentenced to death in 2023. Florida imposed the most death sentences in the U.S. in 2023, with five. California imposed four. Alabama and Texas imposed three each. Arizona and North Carolina imposed two each.
Because of different definitions of what constitutes being “on death row,” some organizations such as the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel or the Bureau of Justice Statistics may have a slightly different list of those currently under federal sentence of death.
Death-row prisoners in the U.S. typically spend more than a decade awaiting execution or court rulings overturning their death sentences. More than half of all prisoners currently sentenced to death in the U.S. have been on death row for more than 18 years.
Currently, there are 10 others on death row in Nebraska, but the state does not possess the necessary lethal injection drugs for any executions. Nebraska has not executed anyone in more than five years.
The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information about capital punishment.…
The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973, at least 200 people who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated.
The issue of extensive time on death row presents a dilemma: If death penalty appeals are rushed through the system, it might lessen the time spent on death row, but more innocent people will be executed and grave injustices will remain undiscovered.
(In this table, the total of inmates on death row will be slightly higher than the national total of 2,241 because some inmates were sentenced to death in more than one state and hence will be counted twice.)