Death Penalty Seminar: Issues in Capital Punishment: Statistical Resources

See the tabs on the left-hand side of this site to explore different topics in capital punishment. News items appear about halfway down the page.

Annual data are available on executions since 1930 and sentencing since 1973. Scroll down the page for tables on capital punishment by year.

Graphical presentation of national death penalty statistics. Note the column on the right side outlining the states with and without the death penalty.

The § 2255 Project maintains various data and demographic information about the federal death row population.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and choose a topic to find useful statistics.

This site is hosted by the University of Michigan, and sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
- For Ready-to-Cite data, Look at the Resources tab, Search "death penalty"
- Run your own analysis by using the Discover Data tab

Yearly reports with statistics on death penalty-related topics, interspersed with news stories and feature articles.

Fact sheets on the death penalty in Alabama, created by the Equal Justice Initiative.

A detailed fact sheet created by the Death Penalty Information Center. Scroll to the bottom for further helpful links that are California-specific.

Death row facts, statistics, and other information from the Florida Department of Corrections website.

A detailed fact sheet created by the Death Penalty Information Center. Scroll to the bottom for further helpful links that are Georgia-specific.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice website.

Links to each state's Department of Corrections website, which collects death penalty statistics.