How many people were put to death in the US in the last 50 years?

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|- ! scope="col" width="44%" | Year ! scope="col" colspan="2" | Executions | ---- ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1930 | 155 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1931 | 153 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1932 | 140 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1933 | 160 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1934 | 168 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1935 | 199 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1936 | 195 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1937 | 147 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1938 | 190 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1939 | 160 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1940 | 124 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1941 | 123 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1942 | 147 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1943 | 131 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1944 | 120 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1945 | 117 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1946 | 131 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1947 | 153 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1948 | 119 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1949 | 119 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1950 | 82 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1951 | 105 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1952 | 83 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1953 | 62 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1954 | 81 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1955 | 76 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1956 | 65 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1957 | 65 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1958 | 49 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1959 | 49 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1960 | 56 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1961 | 42 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1962 | 47 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1963 | 21 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1964 | 15 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1965 | 7 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1966 | 1 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1967 | 2 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1968 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1969 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1970 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1971 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1972 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1973 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1974 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1975 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1976 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1977 | 1 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1978 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1979 | 2 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1980 | 0 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1981 | 1 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1982 | 2 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1983 | 5 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1984 | 21 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1985 | 18 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1986 | 18 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1987 | 25 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1988 | 11 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1989 | 16 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1990 | 23 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1991 | 14 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1992 | 31 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1993 | 38 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1994 | 31 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1995 | 56 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1996 | 45 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1997 | 74 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1998 | 68 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 1999 | 98 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 2000 | 85 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 2001 | 66 ! width="44%" align="middle" | 2002 | 71 ! align="middle" | 2003 | 65 ! align="middle" | 2004 | 59 ! align="middle" | 2005 | 60 ! align="middle" | 2006 | 53 ! 2007 | 42 Source: Capital Punishment, 2006 - Statistical Tables, December 2007, NCJ 220219 |}