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Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS): Capital Punishment

Corrections in the USA at the Beginning of the 21st Century

NCJ Number

209178

Date Published

December 2003

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Capital Punishment 2003

NCJ Number

206627

Date Published

November 2004

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BJS

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Juvenile Death Penalty Today: Death Sentences and Executions for Juvenile Crimes, January 1, 1973 to April 30, 2004

NCJ Number

206332

Date Published

2004

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Exclusion of Child Offenders From the Death Penalty Under General International Law

NCJ Number

204338

Date Published

July 2003

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Factsheet: The Juvenile Death Penalty

NCJ Number

204337

Date Published

April 2003

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Getting to Death: Fairness and Efficiency in the Processing and Conclusion of Death Penalty Cases After Furman, Final Technical Report

NCJ Number

203935

Date Published

June 2002

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation, Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Getting to Death: Fairness and Efficiency in the Processing and Conclusion of Death Penalty Cases After Furman, Final Technical Report

NCJ Number

203935

Date Published

June 2002

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases, Volume I: Federal Death Penalty Trials

NCJ Number

203712

Date Published

December 2002

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Capital Punishment 2002

NCJ Number

201848

Date Published

November 2003

Agencies

BJS

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Capital Punishment for the Crime of Homicide in Chicago: 1870-1930

NCJ Number

200180

Journal

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Date Published

2002

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Juvenile Death Penalty: Is It "Cruel and Unusual" in Light of Contemporary Standards?

NCJ Number

199741

Journal

Criminal Justice

Date Published

2003

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Three Strikes and You're Out: The Implementation and Impact of Strike Laws

NCJ Number

181297

Date Published

1999

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation, Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Capital Punishment 2001

NCJ Number

197020

Date Published

December 2002

Agencies

BJS

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Issues of the Consistency in the Federal Death Penalty: A Roundtable Discussion on the Role of the U.S. Attorney

NCJ Number

195295

Date Published

2002

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United States of America: No Return to Execution, the U.S. Death Penalty as a Barrier to Extradition

NCJ Number

193463

Date Published

2001

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Capital Punishment 2000

NCJ Number

190598

Journal

Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin

Date Published

December 2001

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BJS

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Capital Punishment 1999

NCJ Number

184795

Date Published

December 2000

Agencies

BJS

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Juveniles and the Death Penalty

NCJ Number

184748

Date Published

November 2000

Agencies

OJJDP

Publication Type

Issue Overview

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Survey of the Federal Death Penalty System (1988-2000)

NCJ Number

185401

Date Published

September 2000

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Juveniles and the Death Penalty

NCJ Number

184748

Date Published

November 2000

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OJJDP

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Homicide in California, 1998

NCJ Number

183790

Date Published

August 1999

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Three Strikes and You're Out: The Implementation and Impact of Strike Laws

NCJ Number

181297

Date Published

1999

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Homicide in California, 1997

NCJ Number

180463

Date Published

1999

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