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.
The bodies of the eight men killed by the firing squad on Wednesday have not all been buried yet, but already the Attorney Generalâs Office is preparing for another round of executions.ony said all five men had exhausted their avenues of appeal and would be the next to be put to death. The announcement came hours after the AGO oversaw the execution of eight men, seven of them foreign nationals, on the prison island of Nusakambangan, off Central Java, in the early hours of Wednesday.