The annual Department of Justice report on capital punishment was released Sunday. The key findings:
* In 2003, 65 inmates were executed, 6 fewer than in 2002.
* 11 states had executions in 2003. 24 inmates were executed in Texas; 14 in Oklahoma, 7 in North Carolina; 3 each in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Ohio; 2 each in Indiana, Missouri, and Virginia; and 1 in Arkansas. One inmate was executed in the Federal system.
* Of persons executed in 2003:
— 41 were white
— 20 were black
— 3 were Hispanic (all white)
— 1 American Indian
* Of those executed in 2003, all 65 were men
* Lethal injection accounted for 64 of the executions; 1 was carried out by electrocution.
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