Fact book - Death penalty

STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY (36) Alabama Florida Louisiana New Hampshire* South Carolina Wyoming Arizona Georgia Maryland New Mexico South Dakota Arkansas Idaho Mississippi North Carolina Tennessee California Illinois Missouri Ohio Texas - plus Colorado... More

STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY (36) Alabama Florida Louisiana New Hampshire* South Carolina Wyoming Arizona Georgia Maryland New Mexico South Dakota Arkansas Idaho Mississippi North Carolina Tennessee California Illinois Missouri Ohio Texas - plus Colorado Indiana Montana Oklahoma Utah U. S. Gov’t Connecticut Kansas* Nebraska Oregon Virginia U. S. Military* Delaware Kentucky Nevada Pennsylvania Washington *Indicates jurisdictions with no executions since 1976. STATES WITHOUT THE DEATH PENALTY (14) Alaska Massachusetts New York West Virginia - plus Hawaii Michigan North Dakota Wisconsin District of Columbia Iowa Minnesota Rhode Island Maine New Jersey Vermont 57% 7% 34% 2% Black - 383 Hispanic - 79 White - 633 Other - 24 Race of Defendants Executed Black 14% Other 2% White 79% Hispanic 5% About 80% of the murder victims in cases resulting in an execution were white, even though nationally only 50% of murder victims generally are white. Race of Victim in Death Penalty Cases 0 1 0 2 0 Less