Area chart of the number of executions in the United States for 1930 through 2007.

For persons executed, the number began at 155 in 1930 and fluctuated with a low of 140 in 1932 as it increased to 199 in 1935. The number then decreased, reaching a low of 0 in 1968. Then it fluctuated with a high of 98 in 1999 as it decreased to 42 in 2007.

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