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Capital Punishment 1999
Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death on December 31, 1999, and of persons executed in 1999. Preliminary data on executions in 2000 include State, method used, and race of inmate. The report summarizes the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during 1999. Numerical tables present data on offenders' sex, race, Hispanic origin, education, marital status, age at time of arrest for capital offense, legal status at time of capital offense, methods of execution, trends, and time between imposition of death sentence and execution. Historical tables present executions since 1930 and sentencing since 1973.
Highlights include the following:
At yearend 1999, 37 States and the Federal prison system held 3,527
prisoners under sentence of death, 2% more than in 1998.
The 325 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 10%
of inmates with a known ethnicity.
Fifty women were under a sentence of death in 1999, up from 35 in
1990.
Among persons for whom arrest information was available, the average age
at time of arrest was 28; 2% of inmates were age 17 or younger. At yearend
the youngest inmate was 18; the oldest was 84.
12/00 NCJ 184795
Trends in the number
of executions and the number of persons under sentence of death are available
from the Capital Punishment
section of Key Facts at a Glance.
This report is one in a series. More recent editions may be available.
To view a list of all in the series go to the publications
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