Bureau of Justice Statistics. Capital Punishment: Death Row Inmates Removed - All | State: North Carolina | Age: All Ages | Race: All Races | Ethnicity: All Ethnicity | Gender: All Genders, 1973 - 2005. Data-Planet™ Statistical Datasets by Conquest Systems, Inc. Dataset-ID: 034-001-003
Dataset: All inmates removed from under sentence of death, as reported in annual Bureau of Justice Statistics survey conducted as part of the National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS-8).
Presents data on the number and characteristics of prisoners under sentence of death in the US, and the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status. Data are from an annual survey conducted by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Justice Statistics conducted as part of the National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS-8). Survey participants are the corrections departments of every jurisdiction authorizing capital punishment. This data set has been deemed RESTRICTED by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. As such, it is discontinued and will no longer be updated.
Category: Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
Subject: Sentencing, Judicial Decisions, Appeals, Capital Punishment, Prisoners
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) mission is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded. The BJS was first established on December 27, 1979 under the Justice Systems Improvement Act of 1979, Public Law 96-157 (the 1979 Amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Public Law 90-351). The BJS is a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/