Prisoners Executed Under Civil Authority by Sex and Race statistics

[Excludes executions by military authorities. The Army (including the the Air Force) carried out 160 (148 between 1942 and 1950, 3 each in in 1954, 1955, and 1957, and 1 each in 1958, 1959, and 1961). Of the total, 106 were executed for murder (including 21 involving rape), 53 for rape, and 1 for desertion. The Navy carried out no executions during the period]


						Executed for murder			Executed for rape			Other offenses ²
Year or period
	Total ¹	Male	Female	White	Black	Total ¹	White	Black	Total ¹	White	Black	Total ¹	White	Black

All years	4,458	4,423	35	1,971	2,201	3,692	1,884	1,770	455	48	405	70	39	31

1930-1939	1,667	1,656	11	827	816	1,514	803	687	125	10	115	28	14	14
1940-1949	1,284	1,272	12	490	781	1,064	458	595	200	19	179	20	13	7
1950-1959	717	709	8	336	376	601	316	280	102	13	89	14	7	7
1960-1967	191	190	1	98	93	155	87	68	28	6	22	8	5	3
1968-1976	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1977-1999	598	595	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1977-1980	3	0	0	3	0	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
1981	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
1982	2	2	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1983	5	5	0	4	1	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1984	21	20	1	13	8	21	13	8	0	0	0	0	0	0
1985	18	0	0	11	7	18	11	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986	18	18	0	11	7	18	11	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
1987	25	25	0	13	12	25	13	12	0	0	0	0	0	0
1988	11	11	0	6	5	11	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
1989	16	16	0	8	8	16	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0
1990	23	23	0	16	7	23	16	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
1991	14	14	0	7	7	14	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
1992	31	31	0	19	11	31	19	11	0	0	0	0	0	0
1993	38	38	0	23	14	38	23	14	0	0	0	0	0	0
1994	31	31	0	20	11	31	20	11	0	0	0	0	0	0
1995	56	56	0	33	22	56	33	22	0	0	0	0	0	0
1996	45	45	0	31	14	45	31	14	0	0	0	0	0	0
1997	74	74	0	45	27	74	45	27	0	0	0	0	0	0
1998	68	66	2	48	18	68	48	18	0	0	0	0	0	0
1999	98	98	0	61	33	98	61	33	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Includes races other than White or Black.
2 Includes 25 armed robbery, 20 kidnapping, 11 burglary, 8 espionage (6 in 1942 and 2 in 1953), and 6 aggravated assault.

Source: Through 1978, U.S. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration; thereafter, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Correctional Populations in the United States, annual; and Capital Punishment, annual. Most recent 1998, series NCJ 179012, December 1999.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm

* Capital Punishment in the United States

This series provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the years indicated. Information is supplied on basic sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status at time of imprisonment, level of education, and state of incarceration. Criminal history data include prior felony convictions for criminal homicide and legal status at the time of the capital offense . Additional information is available for inmates removed from death row by yearend of the last year indicated and for inmates who were executed.

Principal Investigator: Bureau of Justice Statistics

Years Produced: Annually (latest release contains all years)

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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