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Capital Punishment, 2007 - Statistical Tables
Download spreadsheet version (.csv file)| Age | Prisoners under sentence of death | ||||||||
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| At time of arrest | On December 31, 2007 | ||||||||
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| Number* | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||||
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| Total number under sentence of death on 12/31/07 |
2,955 | 100 | % | 3,220 | 100 | % | |||
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| 19 or younger | 317 | 10.7 | 1 | -- | |||||
| 20-24 | 812 | 27.5 | 42 | 1.3 | |||||
| 25-29 | 677 | 22.9 | 249 | 7.7 | |||||
| 30-34 | 508 | 17.2 | 431 | 13.4 | |||||
| 35-39 | 321 | 10.9 | 574 | 17.8 | |||||
| 40-44 | 172 | 5.8 | 546 | 17.0 | |||||
| 45-49 | 88 | 3.0 | 583 | 18.1 | |||||
| 50-54 | 34 | 1.2 | 357 | 11.1 | |||||
| 55-59 | 19 | 0.6 | 250 | 7.8 | |||||
| 60-64 | 5 | 0.2 | 127 | 3.9 | |||||
| 65 or older | 2 | 0.1 | 60 | 1.9 | |||||
| Mean age | 29 | yrs. | 43 | yrs. | |||||
| Median age | 27 | yrs. | 42 | yrs. | |||||
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| -- Less than .05% | |||||||||
| Note: The youngest person under sentence of death was a black male in Texas, born in June 1988 and sentenced to death in June 2007. The oldest person under sentence of death was a white male in Arizona, born in September 1915 and sentenced to death in June 1983. | |||||||||
| *Excludes 265 inmates for whom the date of arrest for capital offense was not available. | |||||||||
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See also Methodology.
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