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Sixteen Executed During 1989
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1990, page 7
Sixteen Executions During 1989
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty.
Location:
United States of America.
In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. Since then 13 states have executed 120 people. Last year (1989) eight states executed 16 people. Eight of them were white and eight were black. They'd spent an average of seven years and 11 months on death row before being killed.
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