{"id":1064,"date":"2009-12-03T20:29:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T02:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-12-03T20:29:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T02:29:58","slug":"everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-death-row-but-were-afraid-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2009\/12\/03\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-death-row-but-were-afraid-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"everything you wanted to know about death row (but were afraid to ask)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Justice Statistics just released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/abstract\/cp08st.htm\"><em>Capital Punishment, 2008 &#8212; Statistical Tables<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>I&#8217;ve been interested in the graying of prison populations for some time, so I plotted the age at arrest and current age (as of 12\/31\/08) for U.S. inmates under sentence of death (from Table 7 of the report).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SxhwcmM6TXI\/AAAAAAAAC8s\/Iq85xCM6ejc\/s1600-h\/deathrow3.png\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411198588878998898\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SxhwcmM6TXI\/AAAAAAAAC8s\/Iq85xCM6ejc\/s400\/deathrow3.png\" \/><\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div>The tables, compiled by Tracy Snell, offer a wealth of mostly-depressing information about the men and (increasingly) women on death row. Sample factoid: as of last week, therre were already 11 more executions in 2009 (48) than in all of 2008 (37).<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SxhuyAi98VI\/AAAAAAAAC8c\/YX-XsfThuFQ\/s1600-h\/deathrow.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Justice Statistics just released Capital Punishment, 2008 &#8212; Statistical Tables. I&#8217;ve been interested in the graying of prison populations for some time, so I plotted the age at arrest and current age (as of 12\/31\/08) for U.S. inmates under sentence of death (from Table 7 of the report). The tables, compiled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}