The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has released its lat­est edi­tion of ​“Death Row USA.” The total num­ber of inmates on death row again declined from the pre­vi­ous report, mark­ing a sharp rever­sal from the years of death row increas­es between 1973 and 2000. A total of 3,517 inmates remain on death row. The only juris­dic­tions record­ing death row pop­u­la­tion increas­es were Alabama, Arizona, California, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia, and the Federal Government. See Death Row USA. (NAACP-LDF, Death Row USA, July 1, 2003). (DPIC will post a pdf ver­sion of Death Row USA as soon as it becomes available.)

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