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 such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status at the time of imprisonment, level of education, and state of incarceration." The ICPSR freely provides codebooks and documentation in compressed and uncompressed .pdf format for the data set. Data are supplied in compressed (.gz) and uncompressed formats along with SPSS and SAS data definition statements files. All files may be downloaded by authorized member institutions and official representatives of the ICPSR Data Archive. Downloading specifications and instructions are provided.