Espy Project Datasets, 2016 - 2020

Scope and content:
Contains CSV datasets of American executions created during the Espy Project. Sets will be released by state over the course of the project. Information about the data fields is available here.
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English
Biographical / historical:
In 2016, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) funded The Digital Archive of Executions in the United States, 1608-2002: Digitization and Access to the M. Watt Espy Papers to digitize the index card summaries and reference material and make them available online. The Project attempted to digitize the index card summaries and the reference materials from the Espy Papers and unify them with the Espy File dataset created from the collection during the 1980s.

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