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How many offenders have been executed?

The Bureau of Justice Statitics' (BJS) annual Capital Punishment Report presensts characteristics of persons under sentence of death and persons executed, and summurizes the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status. In 2010, 46 inmates were executed, 6 fewer than in 2009. For additional information and data on executions, see the Corrections>Capital Punishment>Executions section of our site.


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