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More Coverage of DPIC Report & A Look at Ohio

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"Number of executions in 2008 marked 14-year low," is Vesna Jaksic's web-only report today at National Law Journal.The number of executions in 2008 marked a 14-year low, continuing a declining trend since a high reached in 1999, according to a new report. Thirty-seven people were executed in 2008, compared to 42 in 2007, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that opposes capital punishment. The high was reached in 1999, when 98 people were executed. With 18 executions, Texas again had the most executions, followed by Virginia with four. The center also found that the number of new death sentences remained at a 30-year low. Citing data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the report said that 115 death sentences were issued in 2007, the lowest number since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).