>>> Item number 524, dated 94/03/07 21:22:14 -- ALL

Date:         Mon, 7 Mar 1994 21:22:14 -0600
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Subject:      Death Penalty Statistics

        My students are interested in statistics on the application

of the death penalty in America over time. In particular, what studies show differences between the application of death penalty to men and women, whites and african americans, rich and poor? Are there historical comparisons available? (ie, has the ratio of men given the death penalty to women given the death penalty increased or decreased over time? etc.)

What are useful articles or books dealing with these issues? This is all beyond my expertise, but I have a feeling that since FURMAN and GREGG these must be a substantial amount of information available. My students are insistent. Help.

Jonathan M. Bryant
University of Baltimore
eajqjmb@ube.ub.umd.edu

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Date:         Tue, 8 Mar 1994 22:50:30 -0600
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Subject:      Re: Death Penalty Statistics

Professor Brant:

You will want to look at the data base comiled on Executions in the United States from 1608 to the present-- compiled by Watt Espy, Director of the Capital Punishment Research Project in Headland Alabama. He has documented 18,550+ executions in the U. S. These statistics are available on data base. The LC number is: Data Doc HV8699 U5 E7.

Hope this is a good start.

Thomas Thurston
Yale University
thomast@minerva.cis.yale.edu

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Date:         Wed, 9 Mar 1994 16:03:17 -0600
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Subject:      Death Penalty Statistics

From: Emily.F.VanTassel@cyber.Widener.EDU

There is the Baldus study that I think appeared in Iowa's law review in the early 1980's that suggested that the victim's race was a determinative factor in the application of the penalty. Louis Mazur wrote a history of the death penalty that was published by Oxford a few years ago. It is titled RITES OF EXECUTION: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE, 1776- 1865. (1989). Another book is Roger Hood THE DEATH PENALTY: A WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVE. (1990).

From: Mitch Counts <counts@mc.edu>

Try "Death Row, USA" published annually by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Mitch Counts                                         inet: counts@csc.mc.edu
Mississippi College                                            (601)949-5679

Clinton, MS 39058