Overview

Racial Demographics

Current U.S. Death Row Population by Race

Race	Number	Percentage
Black	1104	41.57%
Latino	355	13.37%
White	1120	42.17%
Other	77	2.90%

State-by-State Death Row Populations by Race

as of July 1, 2019

State	Total	Black	White	Latino/a	Native American	Asian	Unknown
Alabama	177	91	84	2	0	0	0
Arizona	122	18	72	25	4	3	0
Arkansas	32	17	14	1	0	0	0
California	729	263	243	186	9	28	0
Colorado	3	3	0	0	0	0	0
Florida	348	133	191	21	1	2	0
Georgia	51	25	23	3	0	0	0
Idaho	8	0	8	0	0	0	0
Indiana	9	2	7	0	0	0	0
Kansas	10	3	7	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	30	4	26	0	0	0	0
Louisiana	69	46	20	3	0	0	0
Mississippi	44	24	18	1	0	1	0
Missouri	24	7	17	0	0	0	0
Montana	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
Nebraska	12	3	3	6	0	0	0
Nevada	74	28	34	10	0	2	0
New Hampshire	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
North Carolina	144	77	55	4	7	1	0
Ohio	140	78	57	3	0	2	0
Oklahoma	46	20	21	2	3	0	0
Oregon	32	2	25	3	1	0	1
Pennsylvania	154	83	55	13	0	3	0
South Carolina	40	22	17	1	0	0	0
South Dakota	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
Tennessee	56	27	26	1	0	2	0
Texas	224	98	60	62	0	4	0
Utah	8	1	5	1	1	0	0
Virginia	3	2	1	0	0	0	0
Wyoming	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
US Gov.	61	25	27	7	1	1	0
Military	4	2	2	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	2660	1105	1123	355	27	49	1

* One member of Death Row’s race is not currently identified by Death Row USA

(In this table, the total of inmates on death row will be slightly higher than the national total of 2,656 because some inmates were sentenced to death in more than one state and hence will be counted twice.)

Figures from NAACP-LDF “Death Row USA (July 1, 2019)”