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Since 1991, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has produced quarterly reports containing statistics related to capital punishment in the United States. The reports include a breakdown of the death row population by race, the race of those executed, as well as the race of the victims in each case.
The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim.Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a ...
Race has been a factor in the United States criminal justice system since the system's beginnings, as the nation was founded on Native American soil. [32] It continues to be a factor throughout United States history through the present, with organizations such as Black Lives Matter calling for decarceration through divestment from police and prisons and reinvestment in public education and ...
A total of twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2024, three by nitrogen hypoxia and twenty-two by lethal injection. [1] The first person executed in 2024, Kenneth Eugene Smith , became the first person in the United States and in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia.
As of October 1, 2024, there were 2,180 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 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]
A supporting fact discovered through examinations of racial disparities over the past twenty years concerning race and the death penalty found that in 96% of these reviews, there was "a pattern of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination or both."
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 9, 2002 James R. Johnson: 52 42 10 Male White Missouri: Lethal injection [3] 2 Michael Patrick Moore: 38 30 8 Texas [4] 3 January 16, 2002 Jermarr Carlos Arnold: 43 24 19 Black [5] 4 January 24, 2002 Ronald Keith Spivey: 62 37 25 White Georgia [6] 5 January 29, 2002 ...