Death Row
,Time on Death Row
,Jun 25, 2021
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…
Death Row
,Time on Death Row
,Oct 05, 2020
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 ac…
Death Row
,Time on Death Row
,Dec 10, 2021
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). …
Death Row
,Dec 29, 2021
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 compi…
Human Rights
,Conditions on Death Row
,Dec 22, 2021
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 …
Time on Death Row
,Nov 22, 2023
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…
