Entries tagged with “Bureau of Justice Statistics”
Death Row
Time on Death Row
,Nov 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCE: Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports 2021 Showed 21st Consecutive Year of Death Row Population Decline
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released its latest report for the year 2021, confirming a continued decrease in the number of people on death rows in the United States. The BJS report, Capital Punishment, 2021 – Statistical Tables, released in November 2023, indicates that 2,382 people were under sentence of death in the custody of states and the federal government in 2021, a 3% decrease in the national death row population from 2020. This total marks the first…
Death Row
Death Row Overview
,Dec 29, 2021
Death Row USA Summer 2021 Report: Fewest Death-Sentenced Prisoners in Three Decades Face Continuing Jeopardy of Execution
Fewer people were on death rows across the United States as of July 1, 2021 or faced continuing jeopardy of execution in pending capital retrial or resentencing proceedings than at any other time in more than three decades, according to data compiled by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and analyzed by the Death Penalty Information Center. In its Summer 2021 edition of Death Row USA (DRUSA), released December 17, 2021, LDF reported that the number of people on state, federal…
Issues
Conditions on Death Row
,Dec 22, 2021
Law Review: Most U.S. Death-Row Prisoners Have Been Housed in Prolonged Solitary Confinement that Violates International Human Rights Norms
More than half of all U.S. death-row prisoners are or have recently been incarcerated in prolonged conditions of solitary confinement that are likely unconstitutional and that violate international human rights norms, a DPIC analysis of data in a recent law review article has found. In Cruel but not Unusual: The Automatic Use of Indefinite Solitary Confinement on Death Row, published in fall 2021 in the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, Merel Pontier (pictured) catalogues the…
Death Row
Death Row Overview
,Time on Death Row
,Dec 10, 2021
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Death Row Below 2,500 First Time in 29 Years After 20 Consecutive Years of Decline, Average Time on Death Row Reaches 19.4 Years
The number of people under sentence of death in the United States has fallen below 2,500 for the first time in 29 years following twenty consecutive years of decline, according to the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). In a new report, Capital Punishment, 2020 – Statistical Tables, released December 10, 2021, BJS says that 2,469 people were under sentence of death in the custody of 28 states and the federal government as of December 31, 2020, down 3.7% from the…
Death Row
Death Row Overview
,Time on Death Row
,Jun 25, 2021
Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports Number on Death Row Down, Average Time on Death Row Approaches 19 Years
The number of prisoners on death row across the United States continues to decline while the average amount of time they have been on death row approaches 19 years, according to a new report from the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). BJS’s June 2021 annual death penalty review found that 2,570 prisoners were under sentence of death in the custody of 29 states and the U.S. federal government as of December 31, 2019, down 2.1% from the 2,626 prisoners on death row at the…
Death Row
Death Row Overview
,Time on Death Row
,Oct 05, 2020
Bureau of Justice Statistics, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Reports Document Ongoing Decline of U.S. Death-Row Population
The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) have issued new reports documenting the continuing historic decline of the death penalty across the United States. On September 29, 2020, BJS released Capital Punishment, 2018 – Statistical Tables, documenting that death row in the United States has decreased in size for 18 consecutive years from 2001 to 2018. Two days later, on October 1, 2020, LDF followed with the…