Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1987 / United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9210.

Capital Punishment in the United States Series (Series) ; 9210.

ICPSR ; 9210

Capital Punishment in the United States Series ; 9210

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--United States--Statistics.

Capital punishment.

Prisoners--United States--Statistics.

Prisoners.

Statistics.

United States.

Criminal statistics--United States.

Criminal statistics.

Genre:

Statistics.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2005-11-04.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1989.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and on prisoners whose sentences were commuted or vacated. The data furnish basic sociodemographic classifications including age, sex, race and ethnicity, marital status at time of imprisonment, level of education, and state and region of incarceration. Criminal history information includes prior felony convictions, prior convictions for criminal homicide, and legal status at the time of the capital offense. Additional information is provided on those inmates removed from death row by yearend 1986, inmates receiving a second capital punishment sentence in 1987, and inmates who were executed.

Contents:

Part 1: Combined File; Part 2: Historical File; Part 3: Current File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Start: 1973; and end: 1987.

OCLC:

61161854

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.