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    • Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1988

    Metadata Updated: November 28, 2023

    This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated. Information is available on basic sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, race and ethnicity, marital status at time of imprisonment, level of education, and state of incarceration. Criminal history data include prior felony 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 1988 and those inmates who were executed.

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    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: us-pd

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    This dataset is part of the following collection:

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 28, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 28, 2023
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 750
    Data First Published 1990-05-16T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2008-11-12T10:27:21
    Rights These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Package Id bb44eeeb-f52d-4515-a631-12b62d55d2f7
    Harvest Object Id 14b78185-d187-4751-8a20-f49ff1003d92
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:061
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bd4bcc65d1298e0b326c3e58b2c3fa1679dd3380e81d776982922b8c4769ada4
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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