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title: 'NEW RESOURCES: "Death Row USA" Winter 2013 Now Available'
description: 'The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA showed a continuing decline in the number of people on death rows across the country.'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-death-row-usa-winter-2013-now-available'
section: news
date: '2013-05-01T17:49:47-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:35:00-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
---

! The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's ***Death Row USA*** showed a continuing decline in the number of people on death rows across the country. As of January 1, 2013, there were 3,125 inmates under a sentence of death, a decrease of 43 from a year ago. Over the last decade, the size of death row has dropped almost 16%, from 3,703 inmates in 2000 to 3,125 in 2013. **California** continued to have the largest death row population (727), followed by **Florida** (413), **Texas** (300), and **Pennsylvania** (202). Neither California nor Pennsylvania has carried out an execution in at least 7 years. In Texas, minorities constitute 71% of the death row population. The report also contains information on executions. Nearly 77% of the murder victims in cases resulting in an execution since 1976 were white, even though nationally, about 50% of murder victims are black.

(NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "[Death Row USA](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/DRUSAWinter2013.pdf)," January 1, 2013, posted May 1, 2013). See also [**Death Row**](../../../../../../../article.php?did=413&scid=9) and [**Studies**](/studies-and-additional-resources?did=220&scid=19). Listen to DPIC's [**podcast about death row**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/resources/podcasts#dea).