Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, 2002
Date Published
September 2004
Publication Type
Publication
Sentencing
Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, 2004
Date Published
December 2006
Publication Type
Publication
Capital Punishment, 2003
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NUMBER OF DEATH ROW INMATES DECLINED FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR DURING 2003
WASHINGTON - There were 3,374 state and federal death row inmates on December 31, 2003, which was 188 fewer than a year earlier, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics...
Capital Punishment (NPS-8)
This collection yields annual data on national and state-level yearend counts of persons sentenced to death and executed. Data collected include offender demographic characteristics, prior criminal histories, criminal justice system status at the time of the capital offense, date of death sentence, and date and type of sentence disposition. The collection also includes summary information on the status of and changes to death penalty statutes.