The lat­est edi­tion of Death Row USA from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is now avail­able. The report reveals that the num­ber of peo­ple on death rows across the coun­try dropped by almost 90 inmates from one year ago. There were 3,471 inmates on death row as of October 1, 2004. In 2005, the death row pop­u­la­tion had shrunk to 3,383. California’s death row remains the largest in the coun­try with 648 peo­ple, fol­lowed by Texas (414), Florida (388), and Pennsylvania (233). The report also reveals that of those juris­dic­tions hav­ing more than 10 peo­ple on death row, the high­est per­cent­age of minori­ties are in Pennsylvania (70%) and Texas (69%).

(NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund ​“Death Row USA,” October 1, 2005). Read the full report in pdf for­mat. See Death Row.

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