Death row
Death row
Death row refers to incarcerated persons who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution (as in "inmates on death row"). Historically, death row was a slang term that referred to the area of a prison in which prisoners who were under a sentence of death were housed. Usage of the term continues despite the fact that many states do not maintain a separate unit or facility for condemned inmates.
Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1987
Date Published
June 1989
Publication Type
Publication
Back From the Dead: Backing the Progress of Kentucky's Furman-Commuted Death Row Population
Date Published
December 1986
Publication Type
Publication
Examining the Work of State Courts, 2003
Date Published
January 2004
Publication Type
Publication
Capital Punishment 1980
Date Published
July 1981
Publication Type
Publication
Selected Charts From Key Facts at a Glance
Date Published
January 1998
Publication Type
Publication
Sixteen States Executed 56 Offenders Last Year
Date Published
December 1996
Publication Type
Publication
Correctional Populations in the United States, 1989
Date Published
September 1991
Publication Type
Publication
Capital Punishment, 1995
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
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...
Capital Punishment, 1996
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...
Capital Punishment 1997
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1998 202/307-0784
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...