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Whithering on the vine

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Here is what I wanted to say, fortunately Matt Kelley @ Change.org is much more eloquent than I am: The Death Penalty Information Center released its annual report on the state of capital punishment  in the United States today, and while it finds that the number of executions was slightly higher in 2009 than 2008, new death sentences were at their lowest level since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. This is big news. The uptick in executions is less important, partly because there was a de facto moratorium on executions nationwide for four months in 2008. Even Texas and Virginia are cooling to the cruel practice of capital punishment. According to the report, Texas averaged 34 death sentences per year during the 1990s and Virginia averaged six...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 19, 2009 (boomark / email).