This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and prisoners whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the period 1973-2001. Information is supplied for basic sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, education, and state of incarceration. Criminal history data include prior felony convictions for criminal homicide and legal status at the time of the capital offense. Additional information is available for inmates removed from death row by year-end 2001 and for inmates who were executed.

There are no exact statistics of victims of the communist regime in the USSR. Firstly, there is a lack of reliable documentary materials. Secondly, it is difficult to define even this very concept – "victim of the regime".

It can be understood narrowly: victims are persons arrested by the political police (security agencies) and convicted on political charges by various judicial and quasi–judicial instances. Then, with small errors, the number of repressed in the period from 1921 to 1953 will be about 5.5 million people.

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• Attracted means people who have been brought to criminal responsibility (most, but not all of them were arrested before that). The figures in that column reflect, rather, the number of cases conducted by the state security agencies in a given year, rather than the number of people actually affected (for example, this number includes all those released during the investigation).
• Convicted information about people who have been sentenced to various punishments by various tribunals or administrative commissions ("troika", "two", "special meeting", etc.) is reflected here. It should be borne in mind that the "convicts" are not necessarily among the "involved" of the same year – often the conviction takes place in the next calendar year.
• Execution (capital punishment) this column provides information about the number of people who have received death sentences.