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Capital Punishment:Facts
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Racial makeup of those executed• Of persons executed in
1999:-- 61 were white-- 33 were black-- 2 were American Indian-- 2 were Asian
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Prisoners under the Death Sentence• At yearend 1999, 37
States and the Federal prison system held 3,527 prisoners under sentence of death, 2% more than at yearend 1998. All had committed murder.
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Prisoners on death row by race• Of persons under
sentence of death in 1999:-- 1,948 were white-- 1,514 were black-- 28 were American Indian-- 24 were Asian-- 13 were classified as "other race."