The US Department of Justice has released statistics detailing the characteristics of people under a sentence of death as of December 31, 1999. In addition to summarizing the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during 1999, the report provides "data on offenders' gender, race, education, marital status, age at time of arrest for capital offense, legal status at time of capital offense, methods of execution, trends, and time between imposition of death sentence and execution." The report also offers preliminary data on executions in 2000 and historical data on executions since 1930 as well as sentencing since 1973. According to the press release, 20 states executed 98 prisoners in 1999 -- the most executions since 1951. Capital Punishment 1998 was reviewed in the January 11, 2000 Scout Report for Social Sciences .