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Additional Coverge of DPIC Report

By Steve Hall

The Death Penalty Information Center report, ?The Death Penalty in 2009: Year End Report," is in Adobe .pdf format.The Los Angeles Times reports"California's death row grows as death sentences decline nationwide," written by Carol Williams and Jack Leonard.Los Angeles County sent more people to death row this year than Texas, Florida or any other state in the nation, condemning 13 convicted murderers -- the highest number in a decade, according to a Times review of justice statistics. The increase comes as a national report projects that the number of death sentences issued across the country this year will reach its lowest level since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. Los Angeles County helped California buck that trend, boosting the state's death sentences from 20 last year to 29 so far this year, more than a quarter of the nationwide total of 106, according to a report released Friday by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).