U.S. capital punishment - prisoners on death row 2020, by education

Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 21, 2023
As of 2020, around 9.2 percent of all prisoners on death row in the United States had at least some college education. The majority of death row prisoners, at 44.4 percent, were high school graduates or had their GED.

Share of prisoners under sentence of death in the United States in 2020, by educational attainment

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Release date

December 2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

The data includes all inmates on death row up to December 31, 2020.

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