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Two More Looks at 2008

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Carol J. Williams reported, "U.S. executions reach 14-year low," in the January 1 Los Angeles Times.Executions and new death sentences continued their nationwide decline in 2008, as states wrestled with legal, moral and financial concerns about capital punishment.Thirty-seven people were executed in nine states, the lowest total in 14 years and a 62% drop from the 98 death sentences carried out in 1999, according to statistics compiled by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. A total of 111 death sentences were handed down, the fewest since executions resumed in 1976, according to the center, a repository of reports and research run largely by opponents of capital punishment. The total declined from 115 in 2007 and was barely a third of the numbers condemned some years in the 1990s...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).