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kewl new research from DPIC

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

DPIC has released some great new research on per capita death sentences & executions.  Texas isn’t necessarily in first. DPIC has two new resources for comparing the use of the death penalty in the various states.  The first is a chart  listing the states in order of their total death sentences as a fraction of their population.  The second measures the total executions in each state as compared to the total number of death sentences.  Even though Texas leads the country with the most executions since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, it is eleventh in the U.S. in terms of death sentences per capita through the end of 2007.  The five leading death-sentencing states on a per capita basis are Alabama, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nevada, and Delaware...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).