Abolition is uneven across states while thousands remain on death row nationally.

Evidence

Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York have all eliminated it. But many states continue to sentence criminals to death— as of 2016, more than 2,800 persons were on death row. Let us look at capital punishment in the United States. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1995

Categorization

• CANDY: A quick, quotable stat: more than 2,800 people on death row even as a handful of states abolish the practice.
• XREF: connects to: Death penalty offenses vary so widely they violate proportionality; Most death-penalty states rarely or never actually execute condemned inmates

Broader Connections

• Most death-penalty states rarely or never actually execute condemned inmates #expands (0.95)
• Death penalty offenses vary so widely they violate proportionality #complicates (0.85)