Number of Death Row Inmates Continue to Decline

According to the latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Death Row USA, the number of people on the death row in the United States is continuing to decline, falling to 3,370 as of April 1, 2006. Texas and South Carolina have had the largest death row inmate decrease since January 1, 2006. California continues to have the nation's largest death row population, followed by Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. More. . .  [Mark Godsey]