NEW RESOURCES: New Death Sentencing Information for 2012

The Death Penalty Information Center is pleased to offer a new resource page on death sen­tences in 2012. Seventy-eight (78) peo­ple were sen­tenced to death in 2012, the sec­ond low­est num­ber of sen­tences since the death penal­ty was rein­stat­ed in 1976. Of those sen­tenced, 3 were women; 49% were black; 40% were white. Four states (FL, CA, TX, and PA) were respon­si­ble for 65% of the death sen­tences, and only 9 coun­ties pro­duced over a third of the death sen­tences in the coun­try. Information is pro­vid­ed on the name, race, state, and coun­ty for each defen­dant. A down­load­able spread­sheet enables sort­ing by each of these cat­e­gories. Click here for our Death Sentences in 2012 page.

(DPIC post­ed, January 11, 2013). Read DPIC’s 2012 Year End Report. For addi­tion­al death sen­tenc­ing infor­ma­tion, see Sentencing. and Arbitrariness.