US death penalty rates will be in sharp focus this week as Troy Davis faces a lethal injection in Georgia, in the most controversial case this year.

But his will not be the first case this year - there have been 33 deaths so far.

Capital punishment was suspended from 1972 to 1976 - when it was resurrected by the Supreme Court.

Since then, 1,264 people have been executed in America. This is how it breaks down:

• Texas is the big state for executions - with 474 since 1976, followed by Virginia

• California has more inmates on death row than any other state - 721. The state has not had any executions since a 2006 moratorium but procedures are set to restart for Albert Greenwood Brown, whose execution was suspended last year. One problem is that the state's supply of sodium thiopental has expired

• Texas is only behind Oklahoma if you look at the rate of executions per million population

• Alabama has 43 defendants on death row for every million people

So, who gets executed? Only 12 women have been executed since 1976. However, race is always an issue in the death penalty debate and that does seem to be backed up by the recent data. If you look at who has been executed since the beginning of 2010, it looks like this:

But if you look at those numbers as a proportion of US population, it's clear that more black people get executed, compared to their share of the population.

Lethal injection has become the most common form of death, with some exceptions. Last year, Ronnie Lee Gardner became the first American in 14 years to be put to death by firing squad - only the third person to die by firing squad in the US since 1977.

The death penalty puts the US in some interesting company: China leads the world in executions - with thousands killed in 2010, according to Amnesty International. Since Cuba stopped carrying out executions in 2003, the US has been the only country in the Americas to execute people, with the exception of St Kitts and Nevis, where one person was put to death in 2008, according to AI.

We have collated statistics from AI - and the excellent Death Penalty Information Centre to show how US capital punishment breaks down across America - and we've included the latest world estimates.

In the spreadsheet below you will find:

• US executions in 2011 and 2010 listed by person

• Execution rates by US state since the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976

• Executions around the world in 2010

• Method of US execution - and how many have died that way

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Data summary

US executions by state Click heading to sort table. Download this data STATE Executions since 1976 In 2011 In 2010 Inmates on death row (Jan 2011) Exe- cutions per million pop since 1976 Death row inmates per million pop Alabama 53 4 5 206 11.21 43.55 Alaska 0 0 Arizona 28 4 1 138 4.19 20.67 Arkansas 27 0 0 43 9.28 14.78 California 13 0 0 721 0.35 19.35 Colorado 1 0 0 4 0.2 0.79 Connecticut 1 0 0 10 0.28 2.84 Delaware 15 1 0 20 16.83 22.44 District of Columbia 0 0 Florida 69 0 1 398 3.69 21.31 Georgia 51 3 2 103 5.15 10.4 Hawaii 0 0 Idaho 1 0 0 16 0.64 10.26 Illinois 12 0 0 16 0.93 1.24 Indiana 20 0 0 14 3.1 2.17 Iowa 0 0 Kansas 9 0 3.17 Kentucky 3 0 0 36 0.69 8.3 Louisiana 28 0 1 86 6.18 18.99 Maine 0 0 Maryland 5 0 0 5 0.87 0.87 Massachusetts 0 0 Michigan 0 0 Minnesota 0 0 Mississippi 15 2 3 60 5.07 20.27 Missouri 68 1 0 50 11.31 8.32 Montana 3 0 0 2 3.06 2.04 Nebraska 3 0 0 12 1.66 6.63 Nevada 12 0 0 81 4.52 30.51 New Hampshire 1 0 0.76 New Jersey 0 0 New Mexico 1 0 0 2 0.49 0.98 New York 0 0 North Carolina 43 0 0 165 4.55 17.44 North Dakota 0 0 Ohio 45 4 8 159 3.9 13.79 Oklahoma 96 2 3 77 25.78 20.67 Oregon 2 0 0 34 0.52 8.82 Pennsylvania 3 0 0 219 0.24 17.34 Rhode Island 0 0 South Carolina 43 1 0 63 9.35 13.7 South Dakota 1 0 0 3 1.22 3.66 Tennessee 6 0 0 87 0.95 13.73 Texas 474 10 17 321 18.8 12.73 Utah 7 0 1 9 2.47 3.18 Vermont 0 0 Virginia 109 1 3 11 13.71 1.38 Washington 5 0 1 9 0.74 1.33 West Virginia 0 0 Wisconsin 0 0 Wyoming 1 0 0 1 1.83 1.83

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