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This report presents statistics on the death penalty. It discusses the number of states that have authorized the death penalty, the methods of execution, and the number and demographics of prisoners who were under sentence of death during 2019. The report also provides data on the number of prisoners executed in 2019 and advance counts of executions in 2020.
Findings are based on data from BJS’s Capital Punishment (NPS-8) series, which has annually collected data on national and state-level year-end counts of persons sentenced to death since 1953 and persons executed since 1930.
Capital Punishment, 2019 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 300381) was written by BJS Statistician Tracy L. Snell. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS’s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at bjs.ojp.gov.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a dataset on capital punishment statistics through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). This dataset contains individual-level data on prisoners sentenced to death, including offender demographics and criminal history characteristics, date of death sentence, and type of sentence disposition.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Doris J. James is the acting director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities, visit BJS online.
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