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2008 Cap. Punishment [1] (2008)

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U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau ofJustice Statistics                  Revised      1 / 13 / 2010



Bulrea u of Justice Statsc




                                                                                 S    December 2009, NCJ 228662


Capital Punishment, 2008 Statisfical Tables


                                                Tracy L. Snell
                                                BIS Statistician


                  Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death on December 31, 2008, and per-
                  sons executed in 2008. Preliminary data on executions by states during 2009 are included.
                  Tables present state-by-state information on the movement of prisoners into and out of death
                  sentence status during 2008, status of capital statutes, and methods of execution. Numerical
                  tables also summarize data on offenders characteristics such as gender, race, Hispanic origin,
                  age at time of arrest for capital offense, legal status at time of capital offense, and time between
                  imposition of death sentence and execution. Data are from the National Prisoner Statistics
                  (NPS-8) series.


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