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Death Row Cases Decline in 2009

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a report from today's NPR's Morning Edition, written by Laura Sullivan.  You can also listen to the report at the LINK.Prosecutors sought the death penalty less often in 2009, while judges and juries handed down fewer death sentences, making it the year with the fewest people sent to death row since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Just 106 people were sentenced to death, compared with three times that many in the 1990s, according to a report by the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center. "There's a sense that, yes, we support [capital punishment] philosophically," says Richard Dieter, the director of the center. "But practically, this is a government program that isn't working...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).