StateMaster - South Dakota Crime statistics

Arson deaths	7	[7th of 49]
Capital offenses First-degree murder with 1 of 10 aggravating circumstances; aggravated kidnaping.
Capital Punishment > Black inmates on death row	35	[35th of 37]
Capital Punishment > Latino inmates on death row	31	[31st of 37]
Capital Punishment > Total executions since 1930	41	[41st of 42]
Capital Punishment > White inmates on death row	31	[31st of 37]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	41	[41st of 51]
Homicide > Total number of victims	48	[48th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Age > 14-17	46 %	[46th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Age > 25-34	32 %	[32nd of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Black Male	41 %	[41st of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	2 %	[2nd of 49]
Homicide > Victims by White Male	1 %	[1st of 49]
Lynchings > Black	41	[41st of 44]
Lynchings > Total	27	[27th of 44]
Lynchings > White	20	[20th of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	42	[42nd of 50]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	30	[30th of 44]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	20	[20th of 50]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	37	[37th of 50]

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SOURCES: US Fire Administration, 2001; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004; National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, statistics. January 1st 2005.; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005; statehealthfacts.org; Bureau of Justice Statistics ; UMKC School of Law; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Prisoner Suicides and Homicides, 2001.

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