NPS-8C Status of Death Penalty Statutes - Statute In Force

NPS-8C

OMB No. 1121-0030: Approval Expires xx/xx/xxxx

NPS-8C

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FORM
(10-01-2022)

STATUS OF DEATH PENALTY STATUTES
STATUTE IN FORCE, 2021
National Prisoner Statistics 2022

U.S. Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Statistics
and Acting as Collecting Agent
U.S. Department of Commerce
Economic and Statistics Administration
U.S. Census Bureau

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GENERAL INFORMATION

● If you need assistance in completing the questionnaire, please call Sabrina Webb,
U.S. Census Bureau, toll-free at 1–800–253–2078.
● Please log in to https://respond.census.gov/nps8ag/ and complete your survey before February 13, 2023

Who receives this form?
This form is sent to jurisdictions that had a capital statute in effect on December 31, 2021.
What information is collected?
Items on the reverse side of this form relate to death penalty statutes in effect in your
jurisdiction during the period January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022.
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Statistics, Washington, DC 20531; and to the Office of Management and Budget, OMB No. 1121-0030,
Washington, DC 20503.

1. National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) records
show that at the end of 2021 your State had a capital
punishment statute. During 2022, was that law explicitly
struck in whole or in part by the U.S. or the State Supreme
Court?
01
No – Go to Question 3
Yes

4. As of December 31, 2022, your State –
01
Had no capital punishment statute – STOP HERE and
return form.
Had a capital punishment statute
02
5. For what offense(s) can the death penalty be imposed in
your State?

Wholly struck
By U.S. Supreme Court
By State Supreme Court
03
02

Partially struck
By U.S. Supreme Court
04
05
By State Supreme Court
Effective date

Citation

6. Does your State provide for automatic appeal upon
imposition of the death penalty, irrespective of defendant’s
wishes?
01

Please provide a copy of the Law(s) cited in the box above.

2. In the opinion of the Attorney General, what was the
impact on persons sentenced under your State’s statute?
01 All were effectively

removed from under sentence of death as of
the decision date; that is, legally these persons could not be
executed under that sentence.

02

03

None were effectively removed from under sentence of death as
of the decision date; that is, legally these persons could still
possibly be executed under that sentence.

02
03

7. What methods of execution are authorized in your capital
punishment statute?
Mark (X) all that apply.
01
02
03
04
05
06

Lethal injection
Electrocution
Lethal gas
Hanging
Firing squad
Other – Specify

Some were effectively removed from under sentence of death as
of the decision date while others were not; that is, legally some
could still possibly be executed under that sentence while others
could not.

3. During 2022, the capital punishment statute was:
01

02

No
Yes

NOTES

Not changed
Revised or modified
Replaced (entirely new statute)
Effective date

Citation

Please provide a copy of the revised sections. If
revised more than once, please specify.

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FORM NPS-8C (10-01-2022)