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Notable second-term Presidential execution realities

By Douglas A. Berman

Over at Capital Defense Weekly, Karl has this intriguing observation in his thanksgiving post: Not that long ago many commentators were realistically expecting 200+ executions a year by now, especially following the election of a President many had called the Texecutioner.  This year?s total executions will be no more than 37 (and possibly just 36), the smallest number since 1994. Looking back at modern year-by-year execution numbers here at DPIC, I figured out that there actually has been less than 200 executions in the United States through all of President Bush's second term in office (189 so far, to be exact).  In notable contrast, there were nearly twice as many executions in the United States through President Bill Clinton's second term in office (344 by my count, to be exact)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 29, 2008 (boomark / email).