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The Year in Death - State Round-Ups

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As the year draws to a close, media outlets in a number of states are looking at capital punishment developments during 2008."Executions, death sentences down in 2008, but Alabama has set 5 executions for 2009," is the title of the Birmingham News report written by Eric Velasco.The number of executions nationally this year hit a 14-year low, but a surge is expected in early 2009 as states such as Alabama plan multiple executions, national and state observers say. Several scheduled executions were halted in 2008 while the U.S. Supreme Court considered a case involving lethal injection, the method used in most of the 36 states that allow capital punishment. After the court upheld lethal injection in April, 37 murderers were executed in nine states, according to the Death Penalty Information Center's annual look at capital punishment statistics and trends...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).