Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2013 [electronic resource]/ United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Format:

Other

Contributor:

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) 36139.

ICPSR 36139

Capital Punishment in the United States Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2015-05-07

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, 1973-2013 provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death, as well as those who had their sentences commuted or vacated and prisoners who were executed. This study examines 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 and prior convictions for criminal homicide and the legal status at the time of the capital offense. Additional information is provided on those inmates removed from death row by yearend 2013. The dataset consists of one part which contains 9,058 cases. The file provides information on inmates whose death sentences were removed in addition to information on those inmates who were executed. The file also gives information about inmates who received a second death sentence by yearend 2013 as well as inmates who were already on death row.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36139.v1

Contents:

Dataset

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2016-03-09.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.