1. The racial census data for 1980 and all years following are not directly comparable to those of other years because of changes in the way some persons reported their race, as well as changes in procedures relating to racial classification. 2. Excludes persons for whom age is not available. 3. Excludes persons enumerated in the Indian Territory and on Indian reservations. 4. Includes only those claiming one race only. 5. Includes American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, and those claiming more than one race.
Only three people have died by firing squad in the US since 1976 - but this number is now set to rise. 1  Share. 2  Share.
1 Eighty-six of them die: 30 are murdered, 53 kill themselves, two die accidentally, and one is shot in a police intervention, the Brady Campaign reports. 2  Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 335,609 people died from guns -- more than the population of St. Louis, Mo.he big picture: 1  Every year in the U.S., an average of more than 100,000 people are shot, according to The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence. 2  Every day in the U.S., an average of 289 people are shot.