Dataset

SOURCES

• Source for Current Death Row Population: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. “Death Row USA” January 1, 2010
• State executions accurate as of most recent execution.
• Source for most Pre-1976 executions: The Espy Database.
• States with and without the Death Penalty
• Source for Murder Rates: FBI Uniform Crime Statistics for 2008 (Published September 2009)
• Clemency Process: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, “Executive Clemency Process and Execution Warrant Procedure In Death Penalty Cases (1993)”, with updates by DPIC.
• Death Row Locations: Provided by each State Department of Corrections (Click Here for links)
• Felony Murder Information: Acker, James R. and C.S. Lanier, “The Dimensions of Capital Murder,” 29 Criminal Law Bulletin 379 (1993).
• Female Statistics: Streib, Victor L., “Death Penalty for Female Offenders”
• Juvenile Statistics: Streib, Victor L., "The Juvenile Death Penalty Today

DPIC WEB PAGES

• Clemency Information
• Crimes Elligible for the Death Penalty (by State)
• Death Row Information
• Execution Database
• Executions in the United States After 1976
• Executions in the United States Before 1976: The Espy File
• Innocence and the Death Penalty
• Related Web Sites (Listing of Individual State Pages)
• Sentencing Information