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Texas News Coverage of the DPIC Report

By Steve Hall

"Death sentences in Texas declining along with nationwide trend, anti-capital punishment group says," is the title of the Dallas Morning News report by Tom Benning.Death sentences issued in Texas remained at historically low levels this year, part of a nationwide trend, an anti-capital punishment group reports today. Texas juries issued nine death sentences in 2009, the same as in 2008, the Death Penalty Information Center said in a new report, maintaining a decline seen over several years. One of the chief reasons is thought to be the 2005 state law that created a sentence of life without parole. During the 1990s, Texas averaged 34 death sentences a year, and the decline ? now evident over several years ? is particularly noteworthy because of the state's stiff support of the death penalty and past proficiency in handing out death sentences...continue to full post

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