According to the latest government report on capital punishment, the number of prisoners on death row is shrinking. Here is how death row's population changed between 2014 and 2015...
Number of prisoners under death sentence
2015: 2,881
2014: 2,942
Number of inmates added to death row
2015: 49
2014: 69
Number of inmates removed from death row (excluding executions)
2015: 82
2014: 75
Number of executions
2015: 28
2014: 35
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Capital Punishment, 2014–2015
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