A publication of the Justice Center	Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center

See also:       > Focus on the Death Penalty         Abstract: During 1993, 38 men were executed in the United States. At the end of 1993, 34 states and the federal prison system held 2,716 prisoners under sentence of death, 5.3 percent more than at yearend 1992. All had committed murder. Based on the Bureau of Justice Statistics report "Capital Punishment, 1993", NCJ-150042.