Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Capital Defense Weekly

Criminal Law

: Capital Defense Weekly

DPIC & AP look at the death penalty in Pennsylvania

By cdw

Forty-seven years have past since Pennsylvania last executed someone who hadn’t “dropped their appeals.” Since restoration of the Pennsylvania death penalty in the disco era 21 people on death row have died of natural causes, 3 agreed to drop the appeals and be executed. Two hard hitting recent pieces by AP & DPIC on the death penalty in Pennsylvania. Bottom line, the capital punishment system — no matter what you perspective as a supporter or opponent — in the Keystone state is broke. DPIC notes: In Pennsylvania, the state goes through the expensive and time-consuming process of trying many death penalty cases and fighting appeals, but almost all cases end with a life sentence. According to a recent Associated Press study of what happens in capital cases in the state, 124 death sentences have been overturned and resentenced...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).