Death Row Overview

Locations of Death Row

An overview of where death-sentenced prisoners are housed across U.S. states with the death penalty.

*There is only one man under a sen­tence of death in New Hampshire. New Hampshire abol­ished the death penal­ty in 2019 but it was not retroactive.

**Nebraska does not des­ig­nate a facil­i­ty for women sen­tenced to death. There has nev­er been a women sen­tenced to death in the state.

***By the end of 2022, California dis­man­tled it’s for­mer death row housed at San Quentin State Prison and moved all death-sen­tenced pris­on­ers to gen­er­al prison pop­u­la­tions across the state.