U.S. capital punishment - racial distribution of executed inmates 1976-2022

Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 2, 2023
Between 1976 and 2021, 861 of the executed death row inmates in the United States were white. The death penalty in the U.S. was reestablished in 1976, and since then, only seven executed inmates were Asian.

Number of death row prisoners executed in the United States from 1976 to 2022, by race

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April 2022

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United States

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1976 to 2022

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