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Looking at the real stories of the death penalty in NYC

By Douglas A. Berman

This morning's New York Times has this fascinating piece, headlined "Aversion to Death Penalty, but No Lack of Cases," exploring capital prosecutions in New York by federal authorities. Here are excerpts: In the 20 years since the federal death penalty statute was revived, no federal juries have been more reluctant to sentence federal defendants to death than those in New York. According to records compiled by the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which coordinates the defense of capital punishment cases, federal prosecutors in New York State have asked juries to impose death sentences 19 times since 1988. In only one case did a jury rule for execution. Nationwide, federal prosecutors win death penalties about one-third of the time, according to the group?s statistics...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).