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Executions in the United States

A dataset about executions (the death penalty) in the United States since the 1976 Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia (428 U.S. 153)

Originator: The Death Penalty Information Center, with revisions by Seth J. Chandler

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the resource:

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ResourceObject["Executions in the United States"]
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Retrieve the default content:

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ResourceData["Executions in the United States"]
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Generate a breakdown of executions by gender and race:

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Query[GroupBy[#Sex &], (GroupBy[#Race &]) /* (Merge[{#, <|"White" -> 0, "Latino" -> 0, "Black" -> 0, "Native American" -> 0, "Asian" -> 0, "Other" -> 0|>}, First] &) /* KeySort, Length][ ResourceData["Executions in the United States"]]
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Generate a breakdown of executions by state and race, but limit to the states with the five most executions:

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Query[GroupBy[#State &] /* Query[SortBy[-Total[#] &]] /* (Take[#, 5] &), (GroupBy[#Race &]) /* (Merge[{#, <|"White" -> 0, "Latino" -> 0, "Black" -> 0, "Native American" -> 0, "Asian" -> 0, "Other" -> 0|>}, First] &) /* KeySort, Length][ ResourceData["Executions in the United States"]]
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Get the data in transposed form:

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columnData = Transpose[ResourceData["Executions in the United States"]]
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Put the data in a form suitable for machine learning: whether, for example, the method of execution affects the probability that a person will "volunteer":

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Short[columnData[#Method -> #Volunteer &], 5]
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Produce a map showing the locations of executions that have occurred since January 1, 2015:

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Query[Select[#Date > DateObject[{2015, 1, 1}] &] /* Counts /* GeoRegionValuePlot, "FullCounty"][ ResourceData["Executions in the United States"]]
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Show that the data will look like if the "CSV" is reimported (just the first five lines are shown here):

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Take[ImportString[ ResourceData["Executions in the United States", "CSV"], "CSV"], 5]
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Seth J. Chandler, "Executions in the United States" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2018)  

License Information

Public domain

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Publisher Information

  • Prepared for the Wolfram Data Repository By: Seth J. Chandler (University of Houston)
  • Publisher of Record: Seth J. Chandler