U.S. inmates condemned to die are spending more time on death row

After spending decades on Arizona’s death row, Clarence Dixon was executed on Wednesday for the 1978 murder of Deana Bowdoin.

At 66 years old, Dixon is just the most recent example of the growing population of aging inmates on America’s death row.

“We’re seeing death sentences near record lows. We’re seeing executions at near record lows,” Robert Dunham, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told NPR. “There are fewer and fewer people on death row overall and the ones who remain on death row have been there longer.”