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Capital Punishment 2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BJS
December 11, 2001 202/307-0784

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...