Data Source: U.S Census Bureau, QuickFacts (July 1, 2019 estimates) and NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Death Row U.S.A. (Winter 2020). Note that the Census uses the term “Hispanic” but the NAACP uses “Latino/a”. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2020)
This graph originally appeared in Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration.