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title: '"Death Row USA, Winter 2015" Shows More Than 12% Drop in U.S. Death Row in Last Decade'
description: 'The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA, which reports state-by-state information on death rows across the country, reflects a…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-row-usa-winter-2015-shows-more-than-12-drop-in-u-s-death-row-in-last-decade'
section: news
date: '2015-04-13T15:03:55-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:40:38-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
---

! The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's ***Death Row USA***, which reports state-by-state information on death rows across the country, reflects a more than 12% decline in the size of death row nationwide. The Winter 2015 edition reports that 3,019 inmates were on America's death rows as of December 31, 2014, down 12.6% from the [**3,455**](https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/DRUSA_Winter_2005-1.pdf) men and women reported ten years earlier. The racial demographics of death row are now 43% white, 42% black, and 13% Latino/Latina. **California** continued to have the largest death row, with 743 inmates, followed by **Florida** (403), **Texas** (276), **Alabama** (198), and **Pennsylvania** (188). Of those jurisdictions with at least 10 people on death row, those with the highest proportions of racial minorities were **Delaware** (76%), **Texas** (72%), and **Louisiana** (71%).

(NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "[Death Row, USA](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/DRUSAWinter2015.pdf)," January 1, 2015; DPIC posted April 13, 2015.) See [**Death Row**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-row/overview) and [**Studies**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/resources/publications-and-testimony/studies).