How many people are under a sentence of death in the United States?
Statistics on the number of individuals sentenced to death in the United States may be accessed from... Read More
Last Updated: May 23, 2008

Where can I find the method of execution for each state?
State execution methods can be found in Capital Punishment, an annual Bureau of Justice Statistics (... Read More
Last Updated: May 23, 2008

How many people are executed in the United States every year?
Capital punishment statistics may be accessed from the Capital Punishment Statistics section of the ... Read More
Last Updated: May 23, 2008

Capital Punishment, 2007 - Statistical Tables,  BJS, December 2008, NCJ 224528.
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Capital Punishment, 2006 - Statistical Tables,  BJS, December 2007, NCJ 220219.
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Final Technical Report: Habeas Litigation in U.S. District Courts: An Empirical Study of Habeas Corpus Cases Filed by State Prisoners Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996,  NIJ-Sponsored, 2007, NCJ 219559. (127 pages).
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Final Technical Report: Habeas Litigation in U.S. District Courts: An Empirical Study of Habeas Corpus Cases Filed by State Prisoners Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (Executive Summary),  NIJ-Sponsored, 2007, NCJ 219558. (13 pages).
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Justice Delayed? Time Consumption in Capital Appeals: A Multistate Study,  NIJ-Sponsored, 2007, NCJ 217555. (56 pages).
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Reevaluating the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Model and Data Uncertainty,  NIJ-Sponsored, December 2006, NCJ 216548. (38 pages).
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Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS): Capital Punishment Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm

Center on Wrongful Convictions
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/

Legal Information Institute: Death Penalty Resources
http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Death_penalty