On the Records: How We Got the TDCJ Execution Data
This morning @TribData released a visualization of all executions in the state of Texas since Gov. Rick Perry took office in late 2000. The interactive was developed to run along side reporter Brandi Grissom's piece that looks at Perry's controversial past with executions.
So how did we make it happen?
The data comes from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's executed offenders page, which has an HTML table with each row corresponding to each execution. Each row has basic information for each offender (name, age, race, date of execution, etc.), but also contains two cells with links ...
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Larissa Lindsay
Thank you for both putting together the database, but also explaining how you did it. I often find the mechanics of things like this interesting.
Larissa (aka half of that couple in Houston who listen to the podcast that Elise and others referred to)