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The Death Penalty in Oklahoma

By Steve Hall

The Tulsa World reports, "Study: Death sentences reach record low."  It's written by Michael Overall and appeared in the paper's Saturday edition.Continuing a long and precipitous decline in the number of death sentences, the trend has sparked hope among some death-penalty opponents that the practice might not have to be abolished formally.Might it eventually fall into disuse, even if it remains officially on the books?"Personally, I would say no," answered Jim Rowan, an Oklahoma City attorney and chairman of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. "There will have to be some legislative action."The number of death sentences nationwide peaked at 328 in 1994. Since then, the number has plummeted more than 66 percent, with 106 death sentences handed down in 2009, according to the survey...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).