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A Descriptive Profile of Mexican American Executions in the Southwest

ISSN: 0362-3319.
Journal from gdlhub / 2012-06-19 09:17:05
Oleh : ADALBERTO AGUIRRE, JR.* and DAVID V. BAKER, University of California, Riverside (AGUIRRE@UCRACl.UCR.EDU.)
Dibuat : 2012-06-19, dengan 1 file

Keyword : A Descriptive Profile of Mexican American Executions in the Southwest
Subjek : A Descriptive Profile of Mexican American Executions in the Southwest
Sumber pengambilan dokumen : Internet

There are several major data sources on executions in the United States (Aguirre &

Baker, 1994). The Espy File, however, is the most comprehensive list of confirmed

executions in the United States (Schneider & Smykla, 1991). In May 1970, M. Watt

Espy began collecting data on public executions from his home in Headland, Alabama.

Espy’s data collection project was moved to the University of Alabama Law Center in

Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1977 under the directorship of John Ortiz Smykla and the

Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research. Since then the University

of Alabama has continued the documentation of new cases, amending cases

already confirmed, and computerization of the data.

The Espy File contains information on 14,570 executions conducted under civil

authority in the U.S. beginning with the first execution in the American colonies of

Captain John Kendall in 1608. The inventory concludes with the electrocution of a 41-

year old white man named Whitley for rape-murder in Virginia on July 6, 1987. The

Espy File contains information on the individual prisoners executed and the circumstances

surrounding the crime for which the prisoner was executed. The data identify

the name, race, age, sex, and occupation of the offender, as well as the date, place,

jurisdiction, crime, and method of execution. The Espy File consists of information on

executions collected from prison officials and state departments of corrections;

contemporary newspaper coverage of crimes, trials, and executions; actual court records of trials and various appeals; and through contacts with local historians, historical societies, museums, archives, and county clerks.

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