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title: 'NEW RESOURCES: "Death Row, USA" Fall 2014 Now Available'
description: 'The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row, USA showed a continuing decline in the size of the death row population. The new total of…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-death-row-usa-fall-2014-now-available'
section: news
date: '2014-11-04T17:10:18-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:39:15-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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! The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's ***Death Row, USA*** showed a continuing decline in the size of the death row population. The new total of 3,035 represented a 13% drop from 10 years earlier, when the death row population was 3,471. The racial demographics of death row have been steady, with white inmates making up 43% of death row, black inmates composing 42%, and Latino inmates 13%. **California** continued to have the largest death row, with 745 inmates, followed by **Florida** (404), **Texas** (276), **Alabama** (198), and **Pennsylvania** (188). **Arkansas**, which last carried out an execution nearly nine years ago, had a 13% decrease in its death row population since last year. The report also contains information about executions. Since 1976, 10% (143) of those executed were defendants who gave up their appeals.

(NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "[Death Row, USA](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/DRUSAFall2014.pdf)," October 1, 2014; DPIC posted November 4, 2014). See [**Death Row**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-row/overview) and [**Studies**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/resources/publications-and-testimony/studies).