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The Pace of Executions in Indiana

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"Indiana executions at slowest pace in 15 years," is Tom Coyne's AP report, via the Chicago Tribune.Indiana has gone two years without an execution for the first time since the mid-1990s, when it put five inmates to death, and prosecutors say the decline could be a sign of things to come. "We're running out of death row inmates," said Clark County Prosecutor Steven Stewart, who maintains a pro-death penalty Web site. Indiana, which reinstated the death penalty in 1977, has handed down 93 death sentences since 1980, including 35 between 1984 and 1988. But the last person put to death was Michael Lambert, who was executed on June 15, 2007, for fatally shooting a Muncie police officer 16 years earlier. Only two death sentences have been imposed since 2004...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).