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This activity uses Map Viewer. ResourcesMapTeacher guide Student worksheetGet startedOpen the map.Use the teacher guide to explore the map with your class or have students work through it on their own with the worksheet.New to GeoInquiriesTM? See Getting to Know GeoInquiries.Social Studies standardsC3: D2.Civ.8.6-8 – Analyze ideas and principles contained in the founding documents of the United States, and explain how they influence the social and political system. C3:D2.Civ.14.9-12 – Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good.C3:D2.Civ.11.9-12 – Evaluate multiple procedures for making governmental decisions at the local, state, national, and international levels in terms of the civic purposes achieved.Learning outcomesStudents will interpret map data as they identify and explain differences in the distribution of the death penalty throughout the United States.Students will analyze the relationship between executions and prisoners on death row.More activitiesAll Government GeoInquiriesAll GeoInquiries

As of August 8, 2024, Texas has executed a total of 598 people since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976. Oklahoma had the second-highest number of executed inmates, with 125 executions carried out since 1976.