Ethnicity
What two states have the highest percentage of minorities on death row?
Texas and Pennsylvania
What nation in the 2000s had executed more juveniles than every other nation in the world combined?
United States of America
How many states still have the capital punishment in place?
27 states (More southern states have it more legalized than not, more northern states have it illegal than not)
Each death penalty inmate is approximately how much more money than a general population inmate?
$1.12 million more
How many months on average elapse between sentencing and execution in the United States as of 2021?
223 months (19 years)
In 2019 what percentage of people on death row were Hispanic?
15%
How many people under the age of 18 have been killed under the death penalty in the world since 1976?
22
Over half of those sentenced to death in Pennsylvania in 2002 came from what city?
Philadelphia (which only accounts for 14% of the Pennsylvania population)
What is the median cost of a death penalty case? A non-death penalty case is $740,000.
$1.26 million
Most states have found that death penalty cases cost more than how many times the amount than non-death penalty cases?
10 times
What percentage of the people on death row are woman?
2.12%
What year was the death penalty outlawed for juveniles?
2005 (case called Roper v. Simmons)
82% of the executions in the United States for the last 4 decades have been in what region?
The South
The death penalty is the most expensive part of the criminal justice system, costing taxpayers an average of what amount of money per offender than a life without parole sentence?
$1 million
What percentage is the estimate of people on death row that are innocent?
4%
What percentage of the people wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in the US are black?
54%
At the time of the juveniles death penalty's outlaw what percentage of people still supported the juvenile death penalty?
22%
What state has the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere, with 650 people on death row as of January 2024?
California
What is the average lawyer fees for a death penalty case?
between $250,000 and $500,000
What is the estimated percentage of people on death row who suffer from mental illness, and are not given the care they need?
20%
What was the population percentage of black people on death row in 2016?
41% (although the population was only made up of 13% black people)
United States and Iran
What state was the first southern state to abolish the death penalty in 2021?
Virginia
What percentage of people on death row are impoverished?
99%
What percentage of Americans believe that capital punishment is applied unfairly?
50%