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A blog produced by the Oregon Justice Resource Center discussing the death penalty (capital punishment) in Oregon and in the Ninth Circuit.

Nevada update 4/25/12

From the Las Vegas Sun Inmate who spent decades on Nevada death row dies An inmate who killed two men in the early 1980s and spent three decades on and off Nevada’s … Continue reading

April 25, 2012

Arizona executes Thomas Kemp

Thomas Kemp, 63, was pronounced dead at 10:08 a.m. local time at the state prison in Florence, about 60 miles southeast of Phoenix. Thomas Kemp is the 16th person put … Continue reading

April 25, 2012

Connecticut Governor signs the death penalty repeal bill

GOV. MALLOY ON SIGNING BILL TO REPEAL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today released the following statement after signing S.B. 280, An Act Revising the Penalty for … Continue reading

April 25, 2012

Number of People Executed in 2013

12 (as of 5/15/13)

Number of People Executed Since 1976

U.S.
1,332

Ninth Circuit States
71 (5.25%)

Number of People on Death Row in Ninth Circuit States (As of April, 2012)

Number of People on Death Row in Ninth Circuit States (As of October 1st, 2012)

Sourced total U.S. number from NAACP LDF, October 1, 2012.

994 (31.6% of U.S. death row population: 3,148)

Race of Defendant:
White: 426 (42.8%)
Black: 317 (31.9%)
Latino: 200 (20.1%)
Native American: 4 (0.4%)
Asian: 26 (2.6%)
Unknown: 21 (2.1%)

Gender:
Male: 970 (97.6%)
Female: 24 (2.4%)

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