How many execution does each state have?
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Number of executions by state from 1976 to January 2000. 38 states use the death penalty or about 76% of the states.
1. 206 Texas (lethal injection)
2. 75 Virginia (electrocution, lethal injection)
3. 44 Florida (electrocution)
4. 41 Missouri (lethal injection)
5. 25 Louisiana (lethal injection)
6. 24 South Carolina (electrocution, lethal injection)
7. 23 Georgia (electrocution)
8. 22 Oklahoma (lethal injection)
9. 21 Arkansas (electrocution, lethal injection)
10. 20 Alabama (electrocution)
11. 20 Arizona (gas chamber, lethal injection)
12. 15 North Carolina (lethal injection)
13. 12 Illinois (lethal injection)
14. 10 Delaware (lethal injection)
15. 8 Nevada (lethal injection)
16. 7 Indiana (electrocution, lethal injection)
16. 7 California (gas chamber, lethal injection)
18. 6 Utah (firing squad, lethal injection)
19. 4 Mississippi (gas chamber, lethal injection)
20. 3 Washington (hanging, lethal injection)
20. 3 Pennsylvania (lethal injection)
20. 3 Nebraska (electrocution)
20. 3 Maryland (gas chamber, lethal injection)
24. 2 Oregon (lethal injection)
24. 2 Montana (hanging, lethal injection)
24. 2 Kentucky (electrocution, lethal injection)
27. 1 Colorado (lethal injection)
27. 1 Idaho (firing squad, lethal injection)
27. 1 Ohio (electrocution, lethal injection)
27. 1 Wyoming (lethal injection)
31. 0 Connecticut (lethal injection)
31. 0 Kansas (lethal injection)
31. 0 New Hampshire (lethal injection)
31. 0 New Jersey (lethal injection)
31. 0 New Mexico (lethal injection)
31. 0 New York (lethal injection)
31. 0 South Dakota (lethal injection)
31. 0 Tennessee (electrocution lethal injection)
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34 out of the 38 states use lethal injection (89.5%). Only states not included are Alabama Florida Georgia and Nebraska
Arizona Arkansas California Colorado
Connecticut Delaware Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas
Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Montana
Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New
York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon
Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee (starting
Jan 1, 1999) Texas Utah Virginia Washington
Wyoming
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11 out of 38 states use electrocution as a method of execution (28.9%)
Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Nebraska Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Virginia
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5 out of 38 states use the Gas Chamber as a method of execution (13.2%)
Arizona California Maryland Missouri Wyoming
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3 out of 38 use hanging as a method of execution (7.9%)
Delaware New Hampshire Washington
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3 out of 38 states use a firing squad as a method of execution (7.9%)
Idaho Oklahoma Utah
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Above is a graph of number of executions by state since 1976 to January 2001. Look at Texas who has 241 executions. They are much higher on the graph in comparison to any other state.
Capital Punishment in North Carolina
-Males on death row are all in Central Prison and all the females on death row are all in North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Both prisons are located in the heart and capital of the state Raleigh.
-Both men and women have maximum security in the prisons. It is virtually impossible to escape.
-Execution method was gas but in 1983 was given the option of lethal injection. Since 1998 the method was changed to only lethal injection.
Above is a graph of the number of executions total across the USA. As you can see the number has gradually gone up over the years. When will this number stop growing so fast?
As you can see from this map there have been many people that have been proven innocent and taken off death row since 1973. There have been a total of eighty five proven innocent. As you can see Florida has had 18 proven innocent and Illinois has had 13 proven innocent. Now remember Florida has had a total 44 executed and Illinois has had a total of 12 executed. This is all true while Texas has had 206 executed while only 7 have been proven innocent. These numbers just don't add up. Obviously Texas is very firm when they put someone on death row while Illinois is not. Illinois has had more people taken off death row than they have actually executed.
Errors in convictions
There are some unbelievable statistics proving that many capital cases have error. Nearly seventy percent of criminal cases have some kind of error or fault in them. Here is a chart of states with their percentages of serious error in criminal cases
1. Kentucky
100%
1. Maryland
100%
1. Tennessee
100%
4. Mississippi
91%
5. Wyoming
89%
6. California
87%
6. Montana
87%
8. Idaho
82%
9. Georgia
80%
10. Arizona
79%
11. Alabama
77%
12. Indiana
75%
12. Oklahoma
75%
14. Florida
73%
15. North Carolina 71%
16. Arkansas
70%
17. Nevada
68%
18. South Carolina 67%
18. Utah
67%
20. Illinois
66%
21. Nebraska
65%
22. Louisiana
64%
23. Pennsylvania 57%
24. Texas
52%
25. Missouri
32%
26. Virginia
18%
More than 400 people across the country have been wrongfully accused across the country and 23 people have been executed when innocent. "There seems to be a way for people to be found innocent today." Said Judy Smith a lawyer from Springfield, Illinois. Today the judicial system has to have some type of major piece of evidence to prove someone guilty. As you can see if are on trial with the possibility of getting the death penalty there is a very good chance you will not get convicted