Death Row Prisoners by State
Total Number of Death-Row Prisoners* as of April 1, 2022: 2,414**
State | Number of Prisoners |
---|
California | 690 |
Florida | 323 |
Texas | 199 |
Alabama | 166 |
North Carolina | 138 |
Ohio
| 134 |
Pennsylvania | 128 |
Arizona | 116 |
Louisiana | 62 |
Nevada | 65 |
Tennessee | 47 |
Oklahoma | 42 |
U.S. Fed. Gov't. | 44 |
Georgia | 41 |
Mississippi | 37 |
South Carolina | 37 |
Arkansas | 29 |
Kentucky | 27 |
Oregon | 21 |
Missouri | 20 |
Nebraska | 12 |
Kansas | 9 |
Indiana | 8 |
Idaho | 8 |
Utah | 7 |
U.S. Military | 4 |
Montana | 2 |
New Hampshire | 1 |
South Dakota | 1 |
Wyoming | 0 |
Source: Death Row Population Figures from NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. “DEATH ROW USA” (As of April 1, 2022).
* Figures include persons whose death sentences have been overturned but who still face the possibility of being re-sentenced to death after a new trial or new sentencing hearing. The number of prisoners in the U.S. facing active death sentences is lower.
** The state-by-state total of individuals on death row is greater than the national total because four prisoners are sentenced to death in two different states.
“I miss the stars. You know, I haven’t seen the stars in years and years and years. I miss the rain. I miss food. I miss all these things. But what it comes down to the most — and this is the thing that will scar me the most and that I’ll carry with me as a scar the longest — the thing I miss the most is being treated like a human being.”
—CNN interview with Damien Echols on Arkansas death row since 1993
(Jan. 13, 2011) (released August 2011).