Death penalty

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1996           202/633-3047
                                                  
  SIXTEEN STATES EXECUTED 56 OFFENDERS LAST YEAR

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sixteen states executed a
total of 56 men last year, the Justice
Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
announced today.  It was the largest number of
prisoners put to death in one year since the
United States Supreme...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE



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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1997            202/307-0784

         
PRISONER EXECUTIONS RISE SIGNIFICANTLY


     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seventy prisoners were
executed in 16 states during the first 11 months
of this year--25 more than all  last year,
according to a report published today by the
Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS).
     Of the 70 executions, Texas accounted...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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SEVENTEEN STATES EXECUTED 74 PRISONERS DURING 1997        

     WASHINGTON, D.C.   Seventeen states executed
74 prisoners during 1997, the Justice Department's
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced
today.  Texas executed half of them--37.  Virginia
put 9 to death, Missouri 6,  Arkansas 4 and
Alabama 3, according to BJS' annual death...

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TWENTY STATES EXECUTED 98 PRISONERS IN 1999
MOST SINCE 1951

Average Death Row Stay Was 11 Years and 11 Months
     
     WASHINGTON, D.C.   Twenty states executed 98 prisoners
in the United States during 1999, 30 more than in 1998. 
This was the highest number of executions in a single year
since 1951, when...

EIGHTY-FIVE OFFENDERS EXECUTED DURING 2000 13 PERCENT DROP FROM PREVIOUS YEAR

Thirty-seven States and Federal Government Held Almost 3,600 Inmates on Death Row

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fourteen states executed 85 prisoners, 83 men and 2 women, during 2000, which was 13 fewer than in 1999, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported today. The executed...

BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS RELEASES ANNUAL REPORT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Fifteen states and the federal government executed 66 prisoners last year, 19 fewer than in 2000, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today.

Sixty-three men and 3 women were put to death during 2001. Forty-eight of them...

U.S. EXECUTIONS UP FOR FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today that thirteen states carried out 71 executions in 2002, five more than the year before. Texas executed the most offenders (33) in...

NUMBER OF DEATH ROW INMATES DECLINED FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR DURING 2003

WASHINGTON - There were 3,374 state and federal death row inmates on December 31, 2003, which was 188 fewer than a year earlier, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics...

NUMBER OF DEATH ROW INMATES DECLINED FOR FOURTH YEAR DURING 2004

WASHINGTON, D.C. - There were 3,315 state and federal death row inmates on December 31, 2004, 63 fewer than on the same date in 2003, the Department of Justice's...