Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2002

Metadata Updated: February 13, 2023

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and prisoners whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the period 1973-2002. Information is supplied for basic sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, 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 available for inmates removed from death row by year-end 2002 and for inmates who were executed.

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

Collection

This dataset is part of the following collection:

Collection Capital Punishment in the United States Series

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics These data collections...
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Dates

Metadata Created Date	November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date	February 13, 2023

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Additional Metadata

Resource Type	Dataset
Metadata Created Date	November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date	February 13, 2023
Publisher	Bureau of Justice Statistics
Maintainer	Ask BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics (USDOJ)
Identifier	764
Data First Published	2004-04-15T00:00:00
Language	eng
Data Last Modified	2008-11-04T20:27:47
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	6becbe79-1854-4cd1-9e2b-76a130bc3860
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	a6c79205fe734a3ec2d043a8db3cc3d0aca2a6b8
Source Schema Version	1.1

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