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 data in the report display prisoners' sex, race, education, marital status, age, and method of execution, and the time between the imposition of the death sentence and execution. The report also includes historical tables that provide data on the 4,291 prisoners executed in the US between 1930 and 1997. The report is available in .pdf and ASCII format. Spreadsheets may be downloaded as a .zip file.