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	<identifier identifierType="DOI">10.3886/ICPSR09819.v1</identifier>
	<creators>
    	
			<creator>
				<creatorName>United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics</creatorName>
			</creator>
    	
	</creators>
	<titles>
		<title>Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1990</title>
		
	</titles>
	<publisher>Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research</publisher>
	<publicationYear>1993</publicationYear>
	<subjects>
		
      		<subject>capital punishment</subject>
      	
      		<subject>commuted sentences</subject>
      	
      		<subject>criminal histories</subject>
      	
      		<subject>death row inmates</subject>
      	
      		<subject>demographic characteristics</subject>
      	
      		<subject>executions</subject>
      	
      		<subject>felony offenses</subject>
      	
      		<subject>prison inmates</subject>
      	
      		<subject>sentencing</subject>
      	
      		<subject>states (USA)</subject>
      	
	</subjects>
	<dates>
		<date dateType="Available">1993-02-14</date>
		<date dateType="Updated">2008-11-12</date>
		
			
				
					<date dateType="StartDate">1973</date>
					<date dateType="EndDate">1990</date>
				
   				
   		
	</dates>
	<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">
		
			event/transaction data
		
	</resourceType>
	<alternateIdentifiers>
		<alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifierType="ICPSR Study Number">9819</alternateIdentifier>
	</alternateIdentifiers>
	<version>1</version>
	<descriptions>
		<description>This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under 
 a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were commuted 
 or vacated during the period 1973-1990. Information is supplied for 
 basic sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, 
 ethnicity, marital status at time of imprisonment, level of 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 those inmates 
 removed from death row by yearend 1990 and for those inmates who were 
executed.</description>
		
		
		
 	</descriptions>
	
</resource>