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Virginia's Death Row is the home of the commonwealth's worst criminals who await their fate either by electrocution or by lethal injection. Death Row is located at Sussex I State Prison in Waverly, Va., and is currently home to 15 male prisoners. The lone female who is on Virginia's Death Row is housed at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. The oldest person on Virginia's Death Row is 59; the youngest is 26. The average age is 36. They have been on Death Row for an average of five years. The average time spent on Death Row since 1991 has been 7.1 years.
In 2009 there were 3,279 people on death row: 1,364 blacks, 370 Hispanics, 1457 whites, and 77 classified as other. In 2005 the highest number of executions was in China (by far the most), Iran (94), Saudi Arabia (86), and the US (60). In the US the most common method of execution is lethal injection.