Death-row inmate Troy Davis, who was convicted of killing a police o cer in 1989 in Georgia, has been denied

clemency and is scheduled to be executed tonight although controversy surrounds his guilt. He will be the 34th convicted criminal in the U.S. to be executed this year.
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Washington

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3
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Montana

States without death penalty Number of executions since 1976

Minnesota Iowa Illinois Missouri Indiana

Vermont

Maine New Hampshire Maine Rhode Is. Connecticut New Jersey

2
Oregon

1
Idaho

Total 1,267

Washington

1 7
Utah Colorado

1
Nebraska

New York Wisonsin Michigan Ohio W. Virginia Pennsylvania

Number of executions 13 per year in the U.S. California

1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
0 1 0 2 0 1 2 5 21 18 18 25 11 16 23 14 31

12

3 1
Kansas

3 109
N. Carolina

20 3 Kentucky 6

45 45

1 15

5 43

Delaware District of Columbia Maryland Virginia U.S. Govt

68
Oklahoma

12
Arkansas

28
Arizona

Tennessee

New Mexico

96 96
Texas

27

S. Carolina Alabama Georgia 43 Mississippi 43

States which still have the gas chamber on the books: Arizona, 474 California, Missouri and Wyoming. Arizona allows prisoners sentenced to death before 1992 to States which still choose between lethal have death by hanging on injection and the gas the books: Delaware, New Hampshire and Washington. chamber.
Delaware allows prisoners sentenced to death before 1986 to choose between lethal injection and hanging.

Louisiana

15

53

51

28

Florida

69

Race of defendants executed

Hispanic 7%

38 31 56 45 74 68 98 85 66 71 65 59 60 53 42 37 52 46 33

1,093

Method of executions 1976-present

Black 35%

White 56%
The lethal injection is usually three di erent drugs: One which numbs the person, one which paralyzes their muscles (including the lungs) and one which causes a heart attack.

Other 2%

157
Lethal Injection Electrocution

Gas chamber

11

3
Hanging

3
Firing squad

Sources: Death Penalty Information Center vv

SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY NICK WHITE/QMI AGENCY