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DPIC releases year-end report on the death penalty in 2009

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this press release, the Death Penalty Information Center has just released its latest end-of-year report on death penalty developments. Here is how the press release describes the highlights of this new report, which is titled ?The Death Penalty in 2009: Year End Report? and is available at this link: The country is expected to finish 2009 with the fewest death sentences since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to a report released today by the Death Penalty Information Center.  Eleven states considered abolishing the death penalty this year, a significant increase in legislative activity from previous years, as the high costs and lack of measurable benefits associated with this punishment troubled lawmakers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).