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DPIC releases year-end report on state of death penalty in 2008

By Douglas A. Berman

Because there are no more executions scheduled for 2008, the Death Penalty Information Center was able to release its annual report on the death penalty early this year.  The report is available at this link, and it has these two sub-titles on its first page, "Marginalization of the Death Penalty Deepens With 95% of Executions in the South" and "Economic Concerns Bog Down Capital Punishment System."  The first sub-title is not especially new or notable, since the vast majority of executions have always been in the south over the last three decades.  The second sub-title is new and notable because it has only been in recent years that the costs of administering capital punishment have become a more common part of policy debates.  And the DPIC report reinforces these economic dynamics in its conclusion: Death sentences and executions have declined in the current decade...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).