Death Penalty Information Center

State by State Information

Welcome to DPIC's new State-by-State information database. Here you will find the information once maintained on several individual pages. To use this database, simply click on the state of your choice using the map or drop-down menu below to display the state's information in the box to the right. For sources and additional information, click here.

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SOURCES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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SOURCES

Clemency Process: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, "Executive Clemency Process and Execution Warrant Procedure In Death Penalty Cases (1993)", with updates by DPIC.
Current Death Row Population: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, "Death Row U.S.A."
Death Row Locations: Provided by each State Department of Corrections (Click Here for links)
Felony Murder Information: Acker, James R. and C.S. Lanier, "The Dimensions of Capital Murder," 29 Criminal Law Bulletin 379 (1993).
Female Statistics: Streib, Victor L., "Death Penalty for Female Offenders"
Juvenile Statistics: Streib, Victor L., "The Juvenile Death Penalty Today"

Source for Death Row Population: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. "Death Row USA" January 1, 2008
State executions accurate as of most recent execution.
Source for most Pre-1976 executions: The Espy Database.

Puerto Rico's Pre-1976 total is from International Viewpoint, October 2001

States with and without the Death Penalty
Source for Murder Rates: FBI Uniform Crime Statistics for 2006 (Published September, 2007)