The Death Penalty in 2013: Year End Review from Death Penalty Info Center

click the link below to watch the 2 minute video 
summarizing their report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6eHXJLBt68

State-by-state data illustrate the decline in death penalty use this year:

• Two states, Texas and Florida, were responsible for the majority (59%) of executions nationwide. Texas had 16 executions and Florida had 7.
• For the sixth year in a row, Texas had less than 10 death sentences, a stark contrast from 1999, when it recorded 48.
• Prominent death penalty states, including South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Louisiana, had no death sentences in 2013.
• California had about 30% of the country’s death sentences, though the state has not carried out an execution in seven years.