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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Wondering about the state and fate of the federal death penalty

By Douglas A. Berman

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A high-profile federal death penalty case that concluded earlier this week in Detroit, which is covered in this local piece headlined "Legal experts say no death penalty is no surprise: Doubtful Detroit jurors didn't put killer in the 'worst of the worst' category," got me to thinking about the current state and future fate of the federal death penalty. Notably, there has been only three federal execution in the modern death penalty era, and none since 2003.  However, federal death row continues to grow, having roughly doubled in size over the last decade.  (Info at DPIC here and here.)

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).

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