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News Coverage of TCADP Report

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Today's New York Times carries part of the AP filing in the National Briefing section, "Texas:Death Sentences Drop."A group that opposes the death penalty said Texas juries this year sentenced the fewest number of inmates to death row since the United States Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. Nine people were sentenced to die in 2008, according to an annual review of capital punishment cases by the group, the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The report said six executions were stopped by last-minute reprieves and seven death-row inmates had their sentences commuted to life. Executions were down to 18 from 26 a year ago, and no executions were carried out until June while the Supreme Courtconsidered whether lethal injection methods were unconstitutionally cruel...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).