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Table 7. Age at time of arrest for capital offense and age of prisoners under
sentence of death at yearend 2006
| Age |
Prisoners under sentence of death |
| |
| At time of arrest |
On December 31, 2006 |
| |
|
| Number* |
Percent |
Number |
Percent |
|
| |
Total number
under sentence
of death
on 12/31/06 |
|
2,955 |
|
100 |
% |
3,228 |
|
100 |
% |
|
|
|
| 19 or younger |
|
329 |
|
11.1 |
|
0 |
|
|
|
|
| 20-24 |
|
815 |
|
27.6 |
|
51 |
|
1.6 |
|
|
| 25-29 |
|
672 |
|
22.7 |
|
280 |
|
8.7 |
|
|
| 30-34 |
|
508 |
|
17.2 |
|
455 |
|
14.1 |
|
|
| 35-39 |
|
312 |
|
10.6 |
|
596 |
|
18.5 |
|
|
| 40-44 |
|
174 |
|
5.9 |
|
563 |
|
17.4 |
|
|
| 45-49 |
|
89 |
|
3.0 |
|
553 |
|
17.1 |
|
|
| 50-54 |
|
34 |
|
1.2 |
|
331 |
|
10.3 |
|
|
| 55-59 |
|
16 |
|
0.5 |
|
246 |
|
7.6 |
|
|
| 60-64 |
|
4 |
|
0.1 |
|
103 |
|
3.2 |
|
|
| 65 or older |
|
2 |
|
0.1 |
|
50 |
|
1.5 |
|
|
| Mean age |
|
28 |
yrs. |
|
|
42 |
yrs. |
|
|
|
| Median age |
|
27 |
yrs. |
|
|
42 |
yrs. |
|
|
|
| |
Note: The youngest person under
sentence of death was a white male in Florida, born in May 1986 and sentenced
to death in September 2006. The oldest person under sentence
of death was a white male in Arizona, born in September 1915 and sentenced
to death in June 1983.
*Excludes 273 inmates for whom
the date of arrest for capital offense was not available. |
| |
Source: National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS-8).
See also Methodology. |
