The lat­est ver­sion of Death Row U.S.A. has been released by the Capital Punishment Project of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. The report con­tains death row and exe­cu­tion data for all states and fed­er­al juris­dic­tions as of January 1, 2008. The report lists inmates by state, name, and race. The report also con­tains infor­ma­tion on each per­son exe­cut­ed since the death penal­ty was rein­stat­ed in 1976, and infor­ma­tion on U.S. Supreme Court deci­sions. The last ver­sion of DRUSA was Jan. 1, 2007. The lat­est report includes the fol­low­ing sta­tis­tics:

The total num­ber of inmates on death rows across the coun­try is 3,309, a decrease from 3,350 report­ed on January 1, 2007. The juris­dic­tions with the most inmates on death row are:
 — California (667)
 — Florida (397)
 — Texas (373)
 — Pennsylvania (228).

The juris­dic­tions (hav­ing 10 or more inmates) with the high­est per­cent­age of minori­ties on death row are:
 — Texas (70%)
 — Pennsylvania (69%)
 — Louisiana (66%).

Source: NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, ​“Death Row USA” Winter 2008. See Death Row.

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