The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area Statistics on Death Sentences No official statistical data on death sentences and executions were provided by the United States Mission to the OSCE. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, in 2013, 79 new death sentences were passed in the United States.152 As of 1 January 2014, there were 3,070 death row inmates in the United States. The greatest number of inmates awaiting execution was in California (742), followed by Florida (410), Texas (278), Alabama (198) and Pennsylvania (193).153 Currently, 61 people are on death row at the federal level. In 2013, one individual, Kaboni Savage, was sentenced to death and two other individuals received death sentences in the first half of 2014.154 There are five people sentenced to death by military commissions on death row.155 Statistics on Executions During the reporting period, 44 executions took place.156 Among those executed, 20 were “White”, 17 were ‘Black”, and 7 were “Latino”.157 The executions were carried out in eight states, namely Texas, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio, Arizona, Alabama and Georgia. Texas executed the most death row inmates, with a total 152  “Death Sentences in 2013”, Death Penalty Information Center, <http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/2013sentencing>. 153  “Death Row Inmates by State”, Death Penalty Information Center , <http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/deathrow-inmates-state-and-size-death-row-year?scid=9&did=188>. 154  “Federal Death Row Prisoners”, Death Penalty Information Center, <http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federaldeath-row-prisoners>. 155  “The US Military Death Penalty”, Death Penalty Information Center, < http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/usmilitary-death-penalty>. 156  According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the following individuals were executed during the reporting period. In 2013 (reporting period only): John Quintanilla (male, Latino, 36, Texas); Vaugn Ross (male, black, 41, Texas); Andrew Lackey (male, white, 29, Alabama); Douglas Feldman (male, white, 55, Texas); John Ferguson (male, black, 65, Florida); Anthony Banks (male, black, 60, Oklahoma); Robert Garza (male, Latino, 30, Texas); Harry Mitts (male, white, 61, Ohio); Arturo Diaz (male, Latino, 37, Texas); Marshall Gore (male, white, 50, Florida); Michael Yowell (white, male, 43, Texas); Edward Schad (male, white, 71, Arizona); William Happ (male, white, 51, Florida); Robert Jones (male, white, 43, Arizona); Darius Kimbrough (male, black, 40, Florida); Jamie McCoskey (male, white, 49, Texas); Joseph Franklin (male, white, 63, Missouri); Jerry Martin (male, white, 43, Texas); Ronald Lott (male, black, 53, Oklahoma),;Allen Nicklasson (male, white, 41, Missouri); and Johnny Black (male, white, 48, Oklahoma). In 2014 (reporting period only): Askari Muhammad (male, black, 62, Florida); Michael Wilson (male, black, 38, Oklahoma); Dennis McGuire (male, white, 53, Ohio); Edgar Tamayo (male, Latino, 46, Texas); Kenneth Hogan (male, white, 52, Oklahoma); Herbert Smulls (male, black, 56, Missouri); Suzanne Basso (female, white, 59, Texas); Juan Chavez (male, Latino, 46, Florida); Michael Taylor (male, black, 47, Missouri); Paul Howell (male, black, 48, Florida); Ray Jasper (male, black, 33, Texas); Robert Henry (male, black, 55, Florida); Jeffrey Ferguson (male, white, 59, Missouri); Anthony Doyle (male, black, 29, Texas); Tommy Sells (male, white, 49, Texas); Ramiro Hernandez (male, Latino, 44, Texas); Jose Villegas (male, Latino, 39, Texas); William Rousan (male, white, 57, Missouri); Robert Hendrix (male, white, 47, Florida); Clayton Lockett (male, black, 38, Oklahoma); Marcus Wellons (male, black, 58, Georgia); John Henry (male, black, 63, Florida); and John Winfield (male, black, 46, Missouri). 157  Ibid. 34