NPS-8A Update Report of Inmates Under Sentence of Death

FORM

NPS-8A

OMB No. 1121-0030: Approval Expires XX/XX/XXXX

(10-11-2018)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS

UPDATE REPORT OF INMATES
UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH
NATIONAL PRISONER STATISTICS

and ACTING AS COLLECTING AGENT

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics Administration

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

Part A – IDENTIFICATION OF INMATE
Year reported
Census assigned I.D. number
1.
2.
3.
4a.
4b.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10a.
10b.
11.
12.
13.

State
Name
Sex
Ethnicity
Race
Birth date
Capital offense
Marital status at time of first imprisonment for capital offense
Highest year of education completed at time of first imprisonment for capital offense
Legal status at time of capital offense
Prior felony convictions
Were any of these convictions for criminal homicide?
Date of arrest for capital offense
Date of conviction for capital offense
Date of sentence for capital offense

Part B – STATUS OF INMATE
14d. As of TODAY, what is the status of this inmate?
14a. Was this inmate still under sentence of death on
December 31, 2018?
1
Under new sentence of
1
Yes – Continue with item 14b
2
Awaiting retrial to determine guilt
2
No, sentence of death removed – SKIP to items 14c and 14d
3
Awaiting resentencing only (guilt affirmed)
14b. Was this inmate on escape or at a mental hospital
4
Found not guilty in retrial
on December 31, 2018?
Month
Year
5
All charges on capital offense dropped
1
Yes, on escape – Enter
month and year of escape
6
Other – Specify
Month
Year
2
Yes, at a mental hospital –
7
No action has been taken since removal from sentence of
Enter month and year of
death
transfer to mental hospital
8
Information not available at this office
3
No
15. Method of execution – Mark (X) one box showing how the
NO FURTHER INFORMATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS INMATE
inmate was executed.
14c.
1
Lethal injection
(1) In what month and year
Month
Year
2
Electrocution
was this inmate removed
from under sentence of
3
Lethal gas
death?
4
Hanging
(2) What was the reason this inmate was removed
5
Firing squad
from under sentence of death?
6
Other – Specify
1
Executed – SKIP to item 15
16. Cause of death other than execution – Mark (X) the
2
Deceased by other causes – SKIP to item 16
appropriate box.
Capital sentence declared unconstitutional by State or
3
1
Natural causes
U.S. Supreme Court
2
Suicide
Sentence commuted
4
3
Murdered by another inmate
5
Conviction affirmed, sentence overturned by appellate
6

or higher court
Conviction and sentence overturned by appellate or
higher court

7

Other – Specify

8

Information not available at this office

4

Other – Specify

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