Why the facility layer matters
A condemned prisoner may live for years at one prison but be transported to another institution when an execution date arrives. Texas is a clear example: male death-row prisoners are housed at the Polunsky Unit, while executions are carried out at the Huntsville Unit. Mississippi, by contrast, currently houses death-row prisoners and carries out executions within Unit 17 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
Major facilities in the archive
The initial expanded cluster includes William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama, Huntsville and Polunsky in Texas, Florida State Prison, Arizona State Prison Complex–Florence, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Broad River Correctional Institution, Idaho Maximum Security Institution, Nebraska State Penitentiary and Utah State Correctional Facility. Existing nodes such as Riverbend Maximum Security Institution and Oklahoma State Penitentiary are folded into the same graph.
From place to method to event
Facility pages connect to the methods documented at those sites: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia. They also connect to individual execution events where the location is documented. This creates a navigable path from a prison to a method, from a method to a failed or botched execution, and from that event to the prisoner and relevant court cases.
Editorial standard
Facility claims are source-bound to corrections departments, official execution protocols and other primary government material wherever available. Current roles are dated rather than treated as permanent, because states can change where condemned prisoners are housed or where executions take place.
Sources
– Death Penalty Information Center — Methods of Execution – Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Death Row Facts – State corrections-department facility pages and execution protocols linked from each individual facility page
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References
- Alabama executions at William C. Holman Correctional Facility · Alabama Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Execution carried out for Kenneth Eugene Smith · Alabama Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Arizona Death Penalty History · Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry · View source ↗
- Death Row Information · Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry · View source ↗
- State by State · Death Penalty Information Center · View source ↗
- Florida State Prison · Florida Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Media Briefing Schedule for Execution of Daniel O. Conahan Jr. · Florida Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- GA Diagnostic Class Prison · Georgia Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Stacey Humphreys Media Advisory · Georgia Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Execution Chamber · Idaho Department of Correction · View source ↗
- Idaho Maximum Security Institution · Idaho Department of Correction · View source ↗
- Photo Gallery: Death Row and Execution Chamber · Mississippi Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Scheduled Executions · Mississippi Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Nebraska Execution Protocol · Nebraska Department of Correctional Services · View source ↗
- Nebraska State Penitentiary · Nebraska Department of Correctional Services · View source ↗
- Legal Information – Capital Punishment Facility · South Carolina Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Death Row · Texas Department of Criminal Justice · View source ↗
- Death Row Facts · Texas Department of Criminal Justice · View source ↗
- Huntsville Unit · Texas Department of Criminal Justice · View source ↗
- Execution Date Set Press Release · Utah Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- History – Utah State Correctional Facility · Utah Department of Corrections · View source ↗
- Methods of Execution · Death Penalty Information Center · View source ↗