CRJ 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anita Alvarez
8 Nov 2021
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The death penalty: who lives, who dies, and who decides. As of october 1, 2020, 2,533 prisoners face execution in the united states. The national death-row population has declined for 18 consecutive years. Reasons for the decline in the death row populations. Deaths by other causes are outpacing new death sentences. Women account for about 1 in 10 - 10% - murder arrests. Women account for only 1 in 50 - 20% - death sentences imposed at the trial level. Women account for only 1 in 52 - 2% - persons presently on death row. Women account for only 1 in 100 - 1% - persons actually executed in the modern age. 21 states do not have the death penalty. Maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, new jersey, new mexico, new. York, north dakota, rhode island, vermont, washington, west virginia, and. 5 states that have the largest death row population. Persons executed for interracial murders in the u. s. since 1976.
