Full Source: Date is from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Figures
for 1923-1973 are at
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/prefurman/racial.htm and figures for
1976-2004 are at
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/racial.htm, both
accessed 16 September 2004. Population figures are from the U.S. Census
at
http://www.census.gov. While these are not computed over the entire
period like death row population percentages, because population changes
are generally slow they provide a reasonable point of reference. For
example, African Americans in Texas shrank from 15.9 percent of the
population in 1920 to 12.5 percent in 1970. Data for 1970 and 1980 on
race and ethnicity are from the U.S. Census Bureau, "Historical Census
Statistics on Population, Totals by Race, 1790 to 1990, and by Hispanic
Origin, 1970 to 1990, For the United States, Regions, Divisions, and
States" at
http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056.html,
accessed 10 October 2004. See also
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race.html, accessed 17
October 2004, and The Statistical History of the United States From
Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 1976. Figures
for 1975 were interpolated linearly from 1970 and 1980 figures.
Population data for 2002 is Census Bureau current population estimates
reported at
http://www.census.gov/popest/states/asrh/tables/SC-EST2003-03/SC-EST2003
-03-48.pdf.
Full Footnote: From 1923-1973 three women were sent to death row, one white
and two black. From 1976-2004 nine women went to death row, four white
and five black.
