Number of prisoners under sentence of death U.S. 2020, by ethnicity

Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 10, 2023
As of December 31, 2020, a total of 2,469 people were to be executed in the United States. Of those prisoners, 1,015 prisoners were Black and on death row. The death penatly is authorized by 27 states and the federal government in the United States.

Number of prisoners in the U.S. with a death sentence in 2020, by ethnicity

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Release date

December 2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

as of December 31, 2020

Supplementary notes

* The data includes all inmates currently under sentence of death up to December 31st, 2020.
The data for white and black inmates include persons of Hispanic/Latino origin.
The data for the total number includes American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders.

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