Death Sentences Per Capita by State

State	Population as of 2007	Cumulative Death Sentences 1977 through 2007	Death Sentences per Capita (x 10,000)
1. Alabama	4,627,851	412	0.890
2. Oklahoma	3,617,316	296	0.818
3. Mississippi	2,918,785	163	0.558
4. Nevada	2,565,382	140	0.546
5. Delaware	864,764	43	0.497
6. North Carolina	9,061,032	436	0.481
7. Florida	18,251,243	845	0.463
8. South Carolina	4,407,709	186	0.422
9. Arizona	6,338,755	261	0.412
10. Arkansas	2,834,797	113	0.399
11. Texas	23,904,380	907	0.379
12. Louisiana	4,293,204	147	0.342
13. Missouri	5,878,415	185	0.313
14. Pennsylvania	12,432,792	345	0.277
15. Ohio	11,466,917	310	0.270
16. Tennessee	6,156,719	166	0.270
17. Idaho	1,499,402	40	0.267
18. Georgia	9,544,750	225	0.236
19. Illinois	12,852,548	299	0.233
20. California	36,553,215	802	0.219
21. Kentucky	4,241,474	82	0.193
22. Virginia	7,712,091	148	0.192
23. Oregon	3,747,455	69	0.184
24. Indiana	6,345,289	94	0.148
25. Nebraska	1,774,571	26	0.147
26. Wyoming	522,830	7	0.134
27. Montana	957,861	10	0.104
28. Maryland	5,618,344	53	0.094
29. South Dakota	796,214	6	0.075
30. New Mexico*	1,969,915	14	0.071
31. Utah	2,645,330	18	0.068
32. New Jersey*	8,685,920	57	0.066
33. Washington	6,468,424	37	0.057
34. Connecticut	3,502,309	13	0.037
35. Kansas**	2,775,997	8	0.029
36. Colorado	4,861,515	13	0.027
37. New York*†	19,297,729	8	0.004
38. New Hampshire	1,315,828	0	0.000

Death Sentences from Bureau of Justice Statistics, Capital Punishment Annual Reports

* States that have abolished the Death Penalty

**Kansas reinstated Death Penalty in 1994

† New York reinstated Death Penalty in 1995