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| | Bureau of Justice Statistics Capital Punishment |
 | | Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death on December 31, 2001, and of persons executed in 2001. |
 | | Numerical tables present data on offenders' sex, race, Hispanic origin, education, marital status, age at time of arrest for capital offense, legal status at time of capital offense, methods of execution, trends, and time between imposition of death sentence and execution. |
 | | Of the 6,754 people under sentence of death between 1977 and 2001, 11% were executed, 4% died by causes other than execution, and 32% received other dispositions. |
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