24
2023 (latest)
EXECUTIONS
executions · 1930–2023 · neither direction is "better" · Bureau of Justice Statistics, Capital Punishment in the United States
155
1930
199
high · 1935
0
low · 1968
−85%
since 1930
┊ dashed lines mark 1979 Oil shock & inflation peak · 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Annual number of persons executed under civil authority in the United States, from Capital Punishment, 2023 - Statistical Tables (NCJ 310309), table cp23stat04. Excludes 160 military executions from 1930 to 1961. Breaks: none known beyond states individually abolishing or reinstating capital punishment over the period, which is a real substantive change, not a measurement break.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cp23st.zip
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Crime-And-Justice
Data
| Year | Executions | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 24 | +33% |
| 2022 | 18 | +64% |
| 2021 | 11 | −35% |
| 2020 | 17 | −23% |
| 2019 | 22 | −12% |
| 2018 | 25 | +9% |
| 2017 | 23 | +15% |
| 2016 | 20 | −29% |
| 2015 | 28 | −20% |
| 2014 | 35 | −10% |
| 2013 | 39 | −9% |
| 2012 | 43 | +0% |
| 2011 | 43 | −7% |
| 2010 | 46 | −12% |
| 2009 | 52 | +41% |
| 2008 | 37 | −12% |
| 2007 | 42 | −21% |
| 2006 | 53 | −12% |
| 2005 | 60 | +2% |
| 2004 | 59 | −9% |
| 2003 | 65 | −8% |
| 2002 | 71 | +8% |
| 2001 | 66 | −22% |
| 2000 | 85 | −13% |
| 1999 | 98 | +44% |
| 1998 | 68 | −8% |
| 1997 | 74 | +64% |
| 1996 | 45 | −20% |
| 1995 | 56 | +81% |
| 1994 | 31 | −18% |
| 1993 | 38 | +23% |
| 1992 | 31 | +121% |
| 1991 | 14 | −39% |
| 1990 | 23 | +44% |
| 1989 | 16 | +45% |
| 1988 | 11 | −56% |
| 1987 | 25 | +39% |
| 1986 | 18 | +0% |
| 1985 | 18 | −14% |
| 1984 | 21 | +320% |
| 1983 | 5 | +150% |
| 1982 | 2 | +100% |
| 1981 | 1 | up from zero |
| 1980 | 0 | −100% |
| 1979 | 2 | up from zero |
| 1978 | 0 | −100% |
| 1977 | 1 | up from zero |
| 1976 | 0 | no change |
| 1975 | 0 | no change |
| 1974 | 0 | no change |
| 1973 | 0 | no change |
| 1972 | 0 | no change |
| 1971 | 0 | no change |
| 1970 | 0 | no change |
| 1969 | 0 | no change |
| 1968 | 0 | −100% |
| 1967 | 2 | +100% |
| 1966 | 1 | −86% |
| 1965 | 7 | −53% |
| 1964 | 15 | −29% |
| 1963 | 21 | −55% |
| 1962 | 47 | +12% |
| 1961 | 42 | −25% |
| 1960 | 56 | +14% |
| 1959 | 49 | +0% |
| 1958 | 49 | −25% |
| 1957 | 65 | +0% |
| 1956 | 65 | −14% |
| 1955 | 76 | −6% |
| 1954 | 81 | +31% |
| 1953 | 62 | −25% |
| 1952 | 83 | −21% |
| 1951 | 105 | +28% |
| 1950 | 82 | −31% |
| 1949 | 119 | +0% |
| 1948 | 119 | −22% |
| 1947 | 153 | +17% |
| 1946 | 131 | +12% |
| 1945 | 117 | −3% |
| 1944 | 120 | −8% |
| 1943 | 131 | −11% |
| 1942 | 147 | +20% |
| 1941 | 123 | −1% |
| 1940 | 124 | −23% |
| 1939 | 160 | −16% |
| 1938 | 190 | +29% |
| 1937 | 147 | −25% |
| 1936 | 195 | −2% |
| 1935 | 199 | +18% |
| 1934 | 168 | +5% |
| 1933 | 160 | +14% |
| 1932 | 140 | −8% |
| 1931 | 153 | −1% |
| 1930 | 155 | — |
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