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title: 'NEW RESOURCES: Latest "Death Row, USA" Now Available'
description: 'The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row, USA shows the total death row population continuing to decline in size. The U.S. death-row…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-latest-death-row-usa-now-available'
section: news
date: '2014-03-06T19:03:35-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:37:18-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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! The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's ***Death Row, USA*** shows the total death row population continuing to decline in size. The U.S. death-row population decreased from 3,108 on April 1, 2013, to 3,095 on July 1, 2013. The new total represented a 12% decrease from 10 years earlier, when the death row population was 3,517. The states with the largest death rows were **California** (733), **Florida** (412), **Texas** (292), **Pennsylvania** (197), and **Alabama** (197). In the past 10 years, the size of Texas's death row has shrunk 36%; Pennsylvania's death row has declined 18%; on the other hand, California's death row has increased 17% in that time. The report also contains racial breakdowns on death row. The states with the highest percentage of minorities on death row were **Delaware** (78%) and **Texas** (71%), among those states with at least 10 inmates. The total death row population was 43% white, 42% black, 13% Latino, and 2% other races.

(NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "[Death Row, USA](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/DRUSA_Summer_2013.pdf)," July 1, 2013; DPIC posted March 6, 2014). See [**Death Row**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-row/overview) and [**Studies**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/resources/publications-and-testimony/studies).