USA Executions Since Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
executions.RdThis dataset contains a list of executions in the United States since the 1976 Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, which reinstated the death penalty in the U.S. The dataset includes details about the victims, perpetrators, and execution methods used. It is a cleaned and abbreviated version of the original dataset, which can be obtained at the source link below.
Format
executions
A data frame with 2332 rows and 12 columns:
- victim_id
Unique ID of a victim of an individual who was executed
- victim_race
The race of the victim
- victim_sex
The sex of the victim
- execution_id
Unique ID of the individual who was executed, the perpetrator
- perpetrator_name
Name of the perpetrator
- perpetrator_race
Race of the perpetrator
- perpetrator_sex
Sex of the perpetrator
- perpetrator_age
Age of the perpetrator
- state_of_execution
State in which the execution occurred
- federal_execution_flag
Whether or not the execution was federal
- execution_date
Date that the execution occurred
- execution_method
Method used for the execution