The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
Statistics on Death Sentences
No official statistical data on death sentences and executions was provided by the
United States Mission to the OSCE. According to the most recent data released
by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were 3,082 inmates on death row as of
31 December 2011.105 As reported by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund,106 the number of known death row inmates on 1 January 2013 was 3,125.107
Among them, 3,062 are men and 63 are women. Men make up 98 per cent of the
total population on death row.108 As of 1 January 2013, California was the state with
the largest death row population (727 people), followed by Florida (413 people) and
Texas (300 people).109
In 2012, one death sentence was imposed by the Federal Government and 77 by
states. Florida and California imposed the highest number of death sentences, with
22 and 13 death sentences, respectively.110
Statistics on Executions
During the reporting period, 38 executions took place.111 Texas executed the most
death row inmates, with a total of 18 executions. Oklahoma executed six inmates.
Ohio and Florida both executed four inmates. Two inmates were executed in both
105 “Capital Punishment, 2011-Statistical Tables”, United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics,
July 2013, <http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cp11st.pdf>.
106
Full title: National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People Legal defence and Educational Fund.
107 “Death Row USA, Winter 2013”, Criminal Justice project, NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund, Inc.,
2013, <http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/DRUSAWinter2013.pdf>.
108
Ibid.
109 “Death Row inmates by States”, Death Penalty Information Center, 2013, <http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
death-row-inmates-state-and-size-death-row-year>.
110 “Death Sentences in 2012”, Death Penalty Information Center, 2013, <http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.
org/2012-sentencing#States>.
111 Execution Lists 2012 and 2013, op. cit., note 98. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the following individuals were executed during the reporting period: in 2012 - Yokamon Hearn (black, 33, Texas); Marvin Wilson
(black, 54, Texas); Daniel Cook (white, 51, Arizona); Michael Hooper (white, 40, Oklahoma); Donald Palmer (white, 47,
Ohio); Robert Harris (black, 40, Texas), Cleve Foster (white, 47, Texas); Jonathan Green (black, 44, Texas); Eric Robert
(white, 50, South Dakota); Bobby Hines (white, 40, Texas); Donald Moeller (white, 60, South Dakota); Donnie Roberts
(white, 41, Texas); Garry Allen (black, 56, Oklahoma); Mario Swain (black, 33, Texas); Brett Hartman (white, 38, Ohio);
Ramon Hernandez (Latino, 41, Texas); Preston Hughes (black, 46 Texas); George Ochoa (Latino, 38, Oklahoma); Richard Stokley (white, 60, Arizona); Manuel Pardo (white, 56, Florida). In 2013 - Robert Gleason (white, 42, Virginia);
Carl Blue (black, 48, Texas); Andrew Cook (white, 38, Georgia); Frederick Treesh (white, 48, Ohio); Ray Thacker (white,
42, Oklahoma); Rickey Lewis (black, 50, Texas); Larry Mann (white, 59, Florida); Ronnie Threadgill (black, 40, Texas);
Richard Cobb (white, 29, Texas); Steve Smith (white, 46, Ohio); Caroll Parr (black, 35, Texas); Jeffrey Williams (black, 37,
Texas); Elmer Caroll (white, 56, Florida); Elroy Chester (black, 44, Texas); William Van Poyck (white, 58, Florida); James
DeRosa (white, 36, Oklahoma); Brian Davis (black, 39, Oklahoma); Kimberly McCarthy (black, 52, Texas).
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