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U.S. capital punishment - racial distribution of executed inmates 1976-2019
Number of death row prisoners executed in the U.S. from 1976 to 2019, by race
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This statistic shows the total number of death row inmates executed in the United States from 2000 to 2019, by ethnicity. As of April 2019, 832 of the executed death row inmates in the U.S. were white.
Number of death row prisoners executed in the U.S. from 1976 to 2019, by race
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by Statista Research Department,
last edited
Sep 2, 2019
This statistic shows the total number of death row inmates executed in the United States from 2000 to 2019, by ethnicity. As of April 2019, 832 of the executed death row inmates in the U.S. were white.
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- United States
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- 1976 to 2019
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- As of April 1, 2019.
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- United States
- Survey time period
- 1976 to 2019
- Supplementary notes
- As of April 1, 2019.
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