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Baptist Coverage of DPIC Report

By Steve Hall

"Reports says use of death penalty on decline in United States," is the title of Bob Allen's report for the Associated Baptist Press.Fewer death sentences were imposed in 2009 than in any year since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, according to year-end statistics compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center. It marked the seventh consecutive annual decline -- with the rationale for juries, judges and prosecutors increasingly shifting away from the morality of the death penalty toward whether the higher cost of executing criminals is worth the benefit it brings to society. The American Law Institute -- the organization that laid the legal groundwork for the death penalty in the early 1960s -- voted in October to abandon support for it...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).