ICPSR Metadata record for Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2000 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2000 United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2008-11-05 3667 doi://10.3886/ICPSR03667.v1
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 1973-2000. 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 yearend 2000 and for inmates who were executed.
 UniverseScheme03667 Capital Punishment in the United States Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00010. Organization03667_1 NACJD.XIV ICPSR.XVII.E RCMD.I NACJD.III capital punishment commuted sentences criminal histories death row inmates demographic characteristics executions felony offenses prison inmates sentencing states (USA) United States 1973 2000 event/transaction data All inmates on death row since 1972 in the United States. official prison records 2000 2000

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  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics 2008-11-05 ICPSR 2008-11-05 Minor changes have been made to the metadata. 2008-10-30 ICPSR 2008-10-30 All parts have moved to restricted access and are available only using the restricted access procedures. 2005-11-04 ICPSR 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. StudyUnit03667
The inmate identification numbers were assigned by the Bureau of the Census and have no purpose outside this data collection.