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Capital Punishment 1997

Recently released by the US Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, this report presents capital punishment data for 1997 as well as preliminary data on executions in 1998. The report finds that in 1997, 3,335 men and women were on death row in 34 states, and during the year, seventeen states executed 74 prisoners -- all male -- with half of the executions occurring in Texas. Tabular...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus9707.pdf
Capital Punishment 1998

The US Department of Justice has released statistics detailing the characteristics of people under the sentence of death as of December 31, 1998. In addition to summarizing the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during 1998, the report provides "data on offenders' gender, race, Hispanic origin, education, marital status, age at time of arrest for capital offense, legal...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/capital-punishment-...
Capital Punishment 1999

The US Department of Justice has released statistics detailing the characteristics of people under a sentence of death as of December 31, 1999. In addition to summarizing the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during 1999, the report provides "data on offenders' gender, race, education, marital status, age at time of arrest for capital offense, legal status at time of...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/capital-punishment-...
Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1996

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan has recently added a new data collection to its archive: Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1996. The data set, compiled by the US Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, presents death row prisoners' felonious criminal history and "basic sociodemographic characteristics...

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/2736