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DPIC Releases 2008 Report

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The Death Penalty Information Center has released it's 2008 report, The Death Penalty in 2008: Year End Report.  It's in Adobe .pdf format.  DPIC lists these highlights at it's website:Decline in the Number of Executions and Death Sentences 37 executions took place in 2008, marking a 14-year low and continuing a downward trend that began in 2000. 95% of all executions occurred in the South in 2008; 49% were in one state - Texas. The annual number of death sentences has dropped by 60% since the 1990s. Innocence and Clemency Four death row inmates were exonerated and four had their sentences commuted to life in prison without parole during the course of this year. The total number of exonerations since 1973 is 130...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).