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The Death Penalty Is Dying

The Death Penalty Is Dying By Mike Farrell, Meet the BloggersPosted on December 15, 2008, Printed on December 16, 2008http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://meetthebloggers.org/112934/ The death penalty is dying. Fewer death sentences are being pronounced and fewer are being pursued, as prosecutors find America?s juries increasingly uncomfortable with the failures in the system. Seeing that 130 innocent people have suffered being charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to death in the last 35 years only to be exonerated and freed ultimately, jurors are less likely today to condemn another to die. In 2000, Governor George Ryan of Illinois found that his state had executed 12 people in the 23 years since their death penalty was reinstated, but in the same period had exonerated 13...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).