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National News Coverage of the DPIC Report - UPDATED

By Steve Hall

The DPIC report, ?The Death Penalty in 2009: Year End Report," is in Adobe .pdf format."Death Sentences Dropped, but Executions Rose in '09," is John Schwartz' report for the New York Times.More death row convicts were executed in the United States this year than last, but juries continue to grow more wary of capital punishment, according to a new report. Death sentences handed down by judges and juries in 2009 continued a trend of decline for seven years in a row, with 106 projected for the year. That level is down two-thirds from a peak of 328 in 1994, according to the report being released Friday by the Death Penalty Information Center, a research organization that opposes capital punishment. ?This entire decade has been marked by a declining use of the death penalty,? said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the group...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).