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Death Sentences Plunge in Texas

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Allan Turner and Mike Tolson's report in today's Houston Chronicle.  It's subtitled, "Foes cite new law, DNA testing; backers blame judges, delays in executions." Juries in Texas ? the nation's most-active death penalty state ? sentenced only eight killers to die this year, the lowest number since 1976 when the U.S. Supreme Court ended its ban on capital punishment. Seventeen killers were put to death in 2010, six fewer than last year for the lowest total since 2001. So far this year, Harris County, which typically has led the state in assessing death sentences, has condemned two convicted killers. The figures were released Monday in an end-of-year review of capital punishment by the Austin-based Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 14, 2010 (boomark / email).