![]() ![]() The handful of counties with the most executions in the last 46 years are concentrated in the southeastern quadrant of the country, mainly in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri. And most of those have executed just one person in that time. Of the more than 3,100 counties and their equivalents in the United States, just 506 - or 16% - have carried out any executions since 1977, the data shows. Next is Oklahoma, with 122 executions in that period that state also led the nation in executions per capita as of 2020, per DPIC’s data. Indeed, Texas’ tally of executions in that period – 583 – tops all other states’. Texas alone, for instance, accounts for 37% of all executions carried out since 1977 as of October 4, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit that monitors and analyzes information about capital punishment and has been critical of its administration. While capital punishment remains legal in 27 states and for the federal government – and a majority of US adults say they’re in favor it for convicted murderers – the number of jurisdictions that keep the death penalty on the books versus those that actually use it to punish the so-called “worst of the worst” illustrates critics’ complaints of how arbitrarily it is administered. ![]() ![]() Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing portion of executions. ![]()
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