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News Coverage of TCADP Report

By Steve Hall

Jordan Smith writes, "Texas Death Penalty Sentencing Declines," for the current issue of the Austin Chronicle, distributed today, but dated December 11.The number of new death sentences imposed in Texas this year was the lowest since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, according to a report released Dec. 7 by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. There has already been another death sentence issued since the report was released, bringing the total handed out this year to nine; still, that number falls well under the previous low of 11 death sentences imposed in 2006. The decrease has taken hold across the state. Harris County has not sent a single inmate to death row since 2007, a stunning reduction for a county that's responsible for one-third of all defendants waiting in Texas' death house...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).