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U.S. capital punishment - racial distribution of death row inmates 2017

Number of prisoners on death row in the U.S. in 2017, by race

The data displays the number of inmates on death row in the U.S. as of October 1, 2017, by ethnicity. As of October 1, 2017, about 1,181 inmates on death row in the United States were white.

White	1181
Black	1162
Latino	368
Asian	53
Native American	27
Unknown	1

U.S. capital punishment - racial distribution of death row inmates 2017

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