BJS Releases Capital Punishment, 2023 – Statistical Tables
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, released Capital Punishment, 2023 – Statistical Tables today. This report describes findings on capital punishment in 2023.
The report presents statistics on persons who were under sentence of death in 2023 and historical trends in executions. It details the jurisdictions that carried out executions in 2023 and includes advance counts of 2024 executions. It also presents the demographics (including sex, race and ethnicity, age, education, and marital status) and the criminal history of persons under sentence of death. BJS collects information about capital punishment each year through its National Prisoner Statistics program.
The report also includes five supplemental documents, including information on the status of death penalty laws in 2023, state capital offenses, federal capital offenses, methods of execution by state, and the number of persons executed in the United States between 1977–2024 by jurisdiction. These documents are accessible on the report’s detail page linked below.
| Title: | Capital Punishment, 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310309) |
| Author: | Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician |
| Where: | https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/capital-punishment-2023-statistical-tables |
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