- 28 executions in 6 states, the fewest since 1991 - 49 death sentences in 2015, 33% below the moden death penalty low set last year - New death sentences in the past decade are lower than in the decade preceding the Supreme Court's invalidation of capital punishment in 1972 - 6 more former death row inmates were exonerated of all charges - Texas, Missouri, Gerogia, and Florida accounted for 93% of executions this year -Nearly 2/3 of all new death sentences came from the same 2% of counties that are collectively responsible for more than half of the nation's death row - Riverside, CA accounted for 16% of all new death sentences in the country