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News Coverage of the DPIC Report

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Again, the report is here."Executions and Death Sentences in United States Dropped in 2008, Report Finds," is the New York Times report by Solomon Moore.The use of capital punishment in the United States waned this year, as state and federal courts executed 37 inmates, a 14-year low, according to a new report. And courts sentenced 111 people to death in 2008, the lowest number of new condemnations in three decades. In 2007, 42 people were executed and 115 were sentenced to death. The capital punishment data was compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center, a research and anti-death-penalty advocacy group. The lull in executions defied predictions that more prisoners would be put to death after a Supreme Court ruling in April upheld lethal injection and ended an eight-month moratorium...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).