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title: 'NEW RESOURCES: "Death Row USA" Winter 2014 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-2014-now-available'
section: news
date: '2014-07-03T19:20:21-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:38:17-04:00'
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, 2014, there were 3,070 inmates on death row, a decrease of 55 from one year earlier. **California** continued to have the largest death row, with 742 inmates. Since 2000, the national death row population has decreased by 16%. **Texas**, which had the second largest death row in 2000, has seen a 39% drop, from 455 to 278. California has had an increase of 29%, from 576 to 742, making it an outlier as the overall death row numbers have dropped. Over 76% of the murder victims in cases resulting in an execution since 1976 were white, even though nationally, about 50% of murder victims are black. Since 1976, 273 black defendants have been executed for the murder of a white victim, while only 20 white defendants have been executed for the murder of a black victim.

(NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "[Death Row USA](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/DRUSA_Winter_2014.pdf)," January 1, 2014, posted July 3, 2014). See also **[Death Row](/article.php?did=413&scid=9)** and **[Studies](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=220&scid=19)**. Listen to DPIC's **[podcast about death row](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/resources/podcasts)**.