Capital Punishment:Facts

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Capital PunishmentFacts
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Racial makeup of those executed

• Of persons executed in 1999-- 61 were white--
  33 were black-- 2 were American Indian-- 2 were
  Asian

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Prisoners under the Death Sentence

• At yearend 1999, 37 States and the Federal prison
  system held 3,527 prisoners under sentence of
  death, 2 more than at yearend 1998. All had
  committed murder.

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Prisoners on death row by race

• Of persons under sentence of death in 1999--
  1,948 were white-- 1,514 were black-- 28 were
  American Indian-- 24 were Asian-- 13 were
  classified as "other race."