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title: 'NEW RESOURCES: New Death Sentencing Information for 2012'
description: '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…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-new-death-sentencing-information-for-2012'
section: news
date: '2013-01-11T17:12:03-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:34:08-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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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**](/2012-sentencing) page.

(DPIC posted, January 11, 2013). Read DPIC's [**2012 Year End Report**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/research/analysis/reports/year-end-reports/the-death-penalty-in-2012-year-end-report). For additional death sentencing information, see **[Sentencing](/death-penalty-sentencing-information?did=895&scid=67)**. and [**Arbitrariness**](/arbitrariness?did=1328).