USA - Nationwide, 80 death sentences were imposed last year

Nationwide, 80 death sentences were imposed last year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center report. That was up slightly from 77 in 2012. But the trend has been fewer death sentences since the 1990s, as more states have abolished the death penalty. In 1996 there were 315 death sentences, according to the report. Alabama's 5 death sentences last year were most of any state per capita. Death sentences by state in 2013: California 24 (population 38 million, 0,063 sentences every 100.000 inhabitants); Florida 15 (19 million, 0,079); Texas 9 (26 million, 0,035); Alabama 5 (4.8 million, 0,104); Ohio 4 (11.5 million, 0,035); Pennsylvania 4 (12.8 million, 0,031); Arizona 3 (6.5 million, 0,046); Indiana 3 (6.5 million, 0,046); Missouri 3 (6 million, 0,050); Mississippi 2 (3 million, 0,067); Nevada 2 (2.8 million, 0,071); Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington had 1 each. 1 also had the Federal and the Military system.