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Native Americans and the Death Penalty |
The Death Penalty Information Center is pleased to announce the
introduction of a new Web page on Native Americans and the death
penalty. The page contains information on the use of the death penalty
against Native Americans and includes the results of an extensive
historical study conducted by David V. Baker. His research was recently
published in the December 2007 edition of Criminal Justice Studies,
and is the first of its kind. Baker reported 464 executions of Native
Americans between 1639 and 2006, not counting thousands of
extra-judicial executions. There is a breakdown of executions by
jurisdiction and by method.
As of
2006, 39 Native American prisoners resided on state and federal death
rows. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, 15
American Indians have been executed, mostly for the murder of white
victims.
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