Total number of people executed since 1977: 43
Innocent persons freed from death row: 5
Clemencies granted: 5
Current death row population: 168
Method of execution: lethal injection
Race and gender
- Black men: 88
- White men: 64
- Native American men: 8
- Other men: 4
- White women: 2
- Black women: 1
- Native American women: 1
County of conviction
- Alamance: 1
- Alexander: 1
- Ashe: 2
- Beaufort: 1
- Bertie: 2
- Bladen: 1
- Brunswick: 3
- Buncombe: 9
- Cabarrus: 1
- Caldwell: 1
- Camden: 1
- Caswell: 1
- Catawba: 3
- Chowan: 1
- Columbus: 1
- Craven: 3
- Cumberland: 9
- Davidson: 3
- Davie: 2
- Duplin: 1
- Durham: 1
- Forsyth: 12
- Gates: 1
- Gaston: 5
- Guilford: 4
- Halifax: 3
- Harnett: 6
- Henderson: 1
- Hertford: 1
- Iredell: 1
- Johnston: 6
- Lenoir: 2
- Martin: 1
- Mecklenburg: 4
- Montgomery: 1
- Moore: 1
- Nash: 1
- New Hanover: 6
- Northampton: 2
- Onslow: 4
- Pender: 1
- Pitt: 3
- Polk: 1
- Randolph: 8
- Richmond: 3
- Rockingham: 2
- Robeson: 4
- Rowan: 4
- Rutherford: 2
- Sampson: 2
- Scotland: 2
- Stanly: 2
- Stokes: 1
- Surry: 1
- Union: 3
- Wake: 11
- Washington: 1
- Wayne: 4
- Wilson: 3
Counties with no death sentences: 41
Upcoming executions
- Marcus Robinson, age 33, 1/26/07
- James Thomas, age 51, 2/2/07
- James Campbell, age 45, 2/9/07
