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To report this story, The Washington Post compiled a database of all the individuals on death row in the United States as of Nov. 13, 2024. Reporters pulled data from the websites of states with an active death row and filed requests for information from those that were not posted online.
The data includes more than 2,000 people sentenced to death in state courts, 40 prisoners sentenced to death in federal courts, and four sentenced to death by the military. One state, New Hampshire, has a person sentenced to death despite abolishing the death penalty in 2019. Three men are serving sentences for crimes in other jurisdictions, including two who are sentenced to death in a second place. They have only been counted once in the analysis for the story but are in the data twice.
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Writing and reporting by Mark Berman. Data reporting by Steven Rich. Graphics by Dylan Moriarty. Video by Reshma Kirpalani. Berman reported from Somerset and Apollo. Kirpalani reported from Apollo. Rich and Moriarty reported from Washington.
Editing by Efraín Hernández Jr. and Debbi Wilgoren. Photo editing by Natalia Jiménez. Design editing by Madison Walls. Graphics editing by Reuben Fischer-Baum. Data editing by Meghan Hoyer. Copy editing by Kim Chapman. Design and development by Agnes Lee. Video editing by Whitney Leaming. Video graphics by Sarah Hashemi and Daron Taylor.
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