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  • Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2002

    Metadata Updated: August 18, 2021

    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

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 18, 2021

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 18, 2021
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Unique Identifier Unknown
    Maintainer
    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
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    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 dc737fa2-51cf-4c61-ab02-1404a95364ab
    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 5f2b192ab9f487f56a40005e5f9f9eb3f44027bb
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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