The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area United States of America Arizona180 Thomas Riley 37 Delaware181 Otis Phillips 36 White Male Black Male Frazier Cross Jr. 73 White Male Oklahoma183 Darrell Frederik 55 Black Male Gennady Yakovitsky 49 White Male Sergey Chmielewski 32 White Male Ivan Kulesh 28 White Male Kansas 182 Minsk Belarus 184 Grodno Murder Male 1st degree murder Male Capital murder and three counts of Male (2) attempt 1st degree Female (1) murder Murder Aggravated murder, non-fulfillment of alimony duties Two counts of aggravated murder, theft, breaking-and-entering, non-fulfillment of parole duties Three counts of aggravated murder, attempted murder, theft and robbery Female Female Female (1) Male (1) Female (3) 179 180 181 182 183 184 Death Penalty executions between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2016: In the reporting period between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2016 Belarus has not carried out an execution. In the United States, 21 people, including one woman, were executed. The State of Texas was responsible for almost half of the executions in the United States during the period covered, with nine sentences executed, followed by Georgia with six, including the only woman executed in the United States during the reporting period. Florida and Missouri both carried out two executions, and Virginia and Louisiana executed one person each. As of 1 January 2016, there were 2,943 people on death row in the United States.185 179  Texas does not officially use the term “First degree murder”. Its equivalent in the state’s legislation is “capital murder.” 180  Arizona department of Corrections, Death Row, <https://corrections.az.gov/node/431>. 181  State of Delaware, Department of Correction, Inmates Currently Sentenced to Death in Delaware, <http:// www.doc.delaware.gov/deathrow/inmates.shtml>. 182  Kansas Department of Corrections, Capital Punishment information, last updated May 2016, <http://www. doc.ks.gov/newsroom/capital/data>. 183  Oklahoma department of Corrections, Death row Monthly Roster, last updated 29 February 2016, <https:// www.ok.gov/doc/documents/DRMR%203-1-2016.pdf>. 184  Reply to ODIHR questionnaire on the status of the death penalty 2015/2016, submitted by the Government of the Republic of Belarus. 185  Death Row U.S.A., Winter 2016, “A quarterly report by the Criminal Justice Project of the NAACP Legal Defense and educational Fund, Inc.” as of 1 January 2016, <http://www.naacpldf.org/death-row-usa>. 45