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U.S. capital punishment - racial distribution of executed inmates 1976-2017

Number of death row prisoners executed in the U.S. from 1976 to 2017, by race

The data displays the total number of death row inmates executed in the U.S. from 2000 to 2017, by ethnicity. As of October 2017, 814 of the executed death row inmates in the United States were white.

White	814
Black	503
Latino	120
Native American	16
Asian	7

U.S. capital punishment - racial distribution of executed inmates 1976-2017

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