Research Guides: Murder in U.S. History: Data

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Statista: Statista integrates statistical data from over 80,000 topics in areas such as business, education, finance, media, politics, society, and technology. Statista gathers data from over 18,000 sources, including market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. The reports, charts, infographics, and statistics found in the database can be downloaded in Excel, PDF, PNG, or PowerPoint formats or embedded in web pages. Rutgers-restricted Access

ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States: The basic databook for U.S. national-level statistics.

Data-Planet Statistical Datasets: Access to data from more than 70 organizational sources. Most data series focus on recent years and a few prior decades, although some data series extend back to the 19th century. Rutgers-restricted Access

UCR: Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics: Create tables based on national and state level crime estimates on violent crime (murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) as well as property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft) from 1960 to the present.

Executions in the U.S. 1608-2002: The Espy File: Espy File Data in chronological, alphabetical, and geographical order. From the Death Penalty Information Center.