Statistics are from the Bureau of Justice and are the official United States statistics as compiled by the government. I've updated them in December, 2007 using the Bureau's latest numbers published in December, 2007 which are compiled from data for the year 2006.
Executions so far this year (2008) 10
Executions last year (2007) 42
Executions in 2006 53
Executions in 2005 60
Executions in 2004 59
Number of states with DP
(AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CN, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WY also the Federal Government and the Military)		 37
Number of states without DP
(AK, HI, IA, ME, MA, MI, MN, ND, NJ*, RI, VT, WV, WI also the District of Columbia)
*In Dec. 2007, New Jersey ended its Death Penalty program in favor of life in prison without parole. 		13
 
Approx. number of Death Row inmates in US (about 15 less than in 2005) 3,230
Approx. number of Death Row inmates per state
AL 190 KY 40 OK 85
AZ 110 LA 85 OR 30
AR 35 MD 5 PA 220
CA 655 MS 70 SC 60
CO 2 MO 50 SD 5
CT 5 MT 2 TN 100
DE

15

 NE 10 TX 390
FL 375 NH 0 UT 10
GA 105 NV 80 VA 20
ID 20 NJ 10 WA 10
IL 10 NM 2 WY 2
IN 20 NY 1 Feds 40
KS 2 NC 165  
OH 185
States with the most DR inmates: California (655), Texas (390) and Florida (375).
States with the fewest DR inmates: New Hampshire has the Death Penalty but has (0) people on DR. Connecticut, Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, New York, South Dakota and Wyoming have 5 or fewer people on DR.
 
Approx. number of people executed worldwide in 2006
(from official records which vastly underreport the numbers) 		1,600
Approx. number of people sentenced to death worldwide in 2006
3,900
Approx. number of countries with Death Penalty laws
75
Approx. number of countries executing prisoners in 2006
25
Top 6 countries for most executions in 2006
China over 1,000
Iran 175
Pakistan 80
Iraq 65
Sudan 65
United States 50

Methods of execution worldwide:
lethal injection, beheading (in Saudia Arabia for instance), firing squad, hanging, stoning (in Afghanistan for instance), electric chair

Countries which carried out executions in the year 2006: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Egypt, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, North Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, United States, Vietnam and Yemen
Country you are most likely to be executed in
(most executions per small population):
Singapore. Executions by hanging for even small offenses such as drug crimes.

Countries without the Death Penalty:
-Canada, Mexico, most of Europe, a lot of Latin America, Australia and New Zealand
-In 2007, Albania, Rwanda and Kyrgzstan ended their Death Penalties.
 
Top states in numbers of executions in 2006:
-Texas with 26.
Oklahoma and Alabama with 3 executions each.
Executions were re-instated by the Supreme Court after a break in 1976. The court was concerned about the various state DP laws being unconstituional in regard to cruel and unusual punishment and due process of law.

- In the 1980s, about 20 Death Row inmates were executed each year.

- In the 1990s, this number jumped dramatically from about 30 in the early 90s, to about 50 in the mid-90s and to a high of almost 100 executions in 1999.

- The number of executions per year is now on the decline with 60 executions in 2005.

- In total, the United States has executed 1,099 prisoners since the 1976 re-instatement.
Texas is quick to execute. Texas has executed 40 per cent of its Death Row while California has only executed 1 per cent of its Death Row population so far.
The UN (United Nations) opposes the Death Penalty. The US is in violation of UN regulations by having the death penalty.
US is the only NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) country with the DP.
Michigan was the 1st state to abolish the Death Penalty, in 1846. Some people think Michigan wanted to be different from its neighbor, Canada, which had public executions.
Wisconsin (my homestate!) was the 2nd state to abolish the Death Penalty, in 1853. Interestingly, Wisconsin only ever executed one person, a farmer who drowned his wife. His hanging became a public spectacle and may have led to the DP being overturned.
On average per year, there are:
 20,000 murders.
15,000 arrests for murder.
14,000 murder cases taken to court (not all crimes are solved).
10,000 murder convictions.
3,000 persons eligible for the DP (usually 1st degree murder with aggravating circumstances).
125 death sentences handed down.
50 executions.
The number of death sentences handed out each year is declining! In the 1990's, about 300 death sentences were handed down each year. By 2000, it had declined to 225. In 2006, only 115 death sentences were handed out.

107 inmates were released from Death Row in 2004. Of the 107, 25 inmates had their convictions overturned and were released from Death Row, while another 72 inmates had their death sentences removed while still being convicted fo the original crime. 4 Death Row inmates were given commutations, meaning a lesser sentence. 6 DR inmates had their death sentences declared unconstitutional by the Kansas Supreme Court.

Of the 107 inmates released from Death Row, 57 are serving a lesser sentence, 20 are awaiting a new trial, 23 are awaiting a new sentencing and 1 had all capital charges dropped. The other 6 had no new actions taken since being removed from DR.
In 2007, all 42 prisoners executed were male. Of the 42 executed, 28 were white, 14 black. All were executed by means of lethal injection.