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: Governing Through Crime

Yes Virginia, there is a death penalty: Reflections on the Christmas Moratorium

By Jonathan Simor

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On the 19th of December, the paper of record, the New York Times, ran a story discussing the lower number of executions (39) in 2013 than in a previous years; a trend that began sometime ago (read it here). The causes of this trend are complex and fascinating and worthy of more comment, but here I want to point out something else. How did the Times know on December 19th how many executions there would be in 2013? That still left more than ten days in 2013 and with more than 30 states with capital punishment still on the books, and more than 10 that regularly execute people, surely a last minute surge might have carried 2013 up and over the not much higher number of executions in 2012. In fact some real problems with execution drug supplies might actually prevent a surge of executions but even a trickle might have done it but that isn't the reason either...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on December 25, 2013 (boomark / email).