, there were 2,180 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions, the information may become outdated.

Demographics

Number on death row by state

As of November 12, 2024.

Ethnicity of defendants on death row

Gender of defendants on death row

Comparatively, 50.8% of the U.S. population is female, and 49.2% is male

Education

Comparatively, 12.19% of U.S. adults have less than a high school diploma or GED.

Mental illness

Comparatively, it is estimated that 4.2% of American adults have a serious mental illness.

Time on death row

Later found innocent or exonerated

List of death row inmates by jurisdiction

Federal

Due to the number of federal death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Military

Alabama

Due to the number of Alabama death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

American Samoa

Capital punishment exists as a punishment in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States, but does not have a prescribed method of execution. No executions have been imposed or performed since the territory gained self-governance in 1949; the last executions occurred in 1939, when the island was under the control of the United States Navy.

Arizona

Due to the number of Arizona death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Arkansas

Due to the number of Arkansas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

California

Due to the number of California death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Florida

Due to the number of Florida death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Georgia

Due to the number of Georgia death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Idaho

Indiana

Kansas

Kentucky

Due to the number of Kentucky death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Louisiana

Due to the number of Louisiana death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Mississippi

Due to the number of Mississippi death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

Note: On May 30, 2019, the state Senate voted to override Governor Chris Sununu's veto on a bill that abolished the state's death penalty 16–8. Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed capital punishment, replacing it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. The law was not retroactive and the one person on death row at the time of abolition remains there.

North Carolina

Due to the number of North Carolina death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Ohio

Due to the number of Ohio death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Oklahoma

Due to the number of Oklahoma death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Due to the number of Pennsylvania death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

South Carolina

Due to the number of South Carolina death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

South Dakota

Tennessee

Due to the number of Tennessee death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Texas

Due to the number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages or part of a criminal enterprise with a separate Wikipedia page are listed.

Utah

Wyoming

Jurisdictions without the death penalty

Twenty-three states have abolished capital punishment. Crimes committed in these states are still eligible for the death penalty if they are convicted in federal court for certain federal crimes. Capital punishment has been abolished in New Hampshire, but only for new sentences. One prisoner (Michael Addison) who was already sentenced to death remains on death row in the state. States and the date of abolition of capital punishment: Territories and federal districts: