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| Subject: Death Sentences Dropped, but Executions Rose in ’09 Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:20 am | |
| More death row convicts were executed in the United States this year than last, but juries continue to grow more wary of capital punishment, according to a new report.
Death sentences handed down by judges and juries in 2009 continued a trend of decline for seven years in a row, with 106 projected for the year. That level is down two-thirds from a peak of 328 in 1994, according to the report being released Friday by the Death Penalty Information Center, a research organization that opposes capital punishment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/us/18death.html _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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