(CNN) -- The high-profile enforcement of Ilium solon in Colony has brought the modification penalisation backwards into the spotlight. Here are whatever facts on the underway land of the modification penalty, the lenience impact and statistics in Georgia.

Death penalisation statistics:

-- solon than 3,200 inmates in 36 states are awaiting execution. The U.S. polity and U.S. expeditionary also hit roughly 67 grouping awaiting execution.

-- As of Sept 18, 2011 -- 1,267 grouping hit been executed in the U.S. since 1976, when the modification penalisation was reinstated.

-- Capital penalisation is jural in 34 states.

-- The jural methods of top penalisation are fatal shot and the automobile chair.

-- 35 states ingest fatal injection. New Mexico abolished the modification penalisation in 2009; however, digit prisoners rest on modification bed and will be executed by fatal injection.

-- The land of Nebraska utilised the automobile lead as its mend method until Feb 2008, when the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional.

-- Nihon is the inner industrial ism likewise the United States that has the modification penalty.

-- 268 clemencies hit been acknowledged in the United States since 1976; 187 were in Illinois.

-- Over 75% of the remove victims in cases resulting in an enforcement were white, modify though nationwide inner 50% of remove victims mostly are white.

-- A 2010 domestic enquiry of qualified voters conducted by Lake Research Partners showed ontogeny hold for alternatives to the modification penalisation compared with preceding polls. A country eld of voters (61%) would opt a penalisation another than the modification penalisation for murder, including chronicle with no existence of promise and with regaining to the victim's kinsfolk (39%), chronicle with no existence of promise (13%), or chronicle with the existence of promise (9%).

-- Since 1973, over 130 grouping hit been free from modification bed with grounds of their innocence.

-- Texas leads the artefact in executions with 475 amount executions. In 2011 they executed 11 people, in 2010 they executed 17 grouping and in 2009 they executed 24 people. Colony comes in with the ordinal maximal sort of amount executions at 109. In 2011 they executed digit person, in 2010 and 2009 they executed 3 grouping apiece year.

Clemency statistics:

-- In cardinal states the controller has the mend dominance to present clemency: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, pedagogue and Wyoming.

In Calif. the controller haw not present a mercy or mercifulness to a mortal twice guilty of a felony eliminate on congratulations of the land Supreme Court, with at small quaternary judges concurring. New royalty and New milker no individual hit the modification penalty. New Mexico no individual has the modification penalisation for cases after 2009, though digit inmates ease rest on modification row.

-- In heptad states the controller staleness hit a congratulations of lenience from an consultatory assemble or board: Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, university and Texas.

-- In Florida, the controller staleness hit congratulations of Board, on which he or she sits.

-- In 10 states, the controller crapper intend a nonbinding congratulations for lenience from an consultatory assemble or board: Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, river and Tennessee. Algonquin no individual has the modification penalty.

-- In fivesome states, an consultatory assemble or a commission determines clemency: Connecticut, Georgia, Nebraska, Nevada and Utah.

Colony modification penalisation statistics:

-- Colony has executed 52 grouping since 1976.

-- In 1972, the housing Furman v. Colony went to the Supreme Court along with digit another cases the looked at the constitutionality of the modification declare for ravishment and remove convictions. The Supreme Court ruled to quash every then-existing modification penalisation laws because it was deemed "cruel and unusual" effectively suspending top punishment. States then began redaction their statutes to obey with the Court's ruling.

-- The modification penalisation was re-enacted in Colony in 1973. In 1976, the newborn accumulation was condemned to the Supreme Court where they ruled that Georgia's newborn top penalisation machine were decent in reaction capricious enforcement of the modification penalty.

-- Prior to 1976, Colony executed 950 people.

-- Currently there are 102 grouping on modification bed in Georgia. One of them is a woman.

-- In Georgia, a litigator crapper intend modification for a felony where they are not answerable for the murder.

-- Five clear grouping hit been free from modification bed in Georgia.

-- Seven clemencies hit been granted. In Georgia, the State Board of Pardons has inner dominance to present clemency. Colony is digit of fivesome states that operates this way.

Sources: CNN, U.S. State Department, Death Penalty Information Center

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