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23 Jun 2008, 3:50 pm
"By the end of 2008, Texas will have the most executions of any state, as it has for many other years," predicted Richard Dieter, director of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center. [read post]
15 Jan 2010, 7:49 am by Steve Hall
"Outside a few states, the death penalty is not a regular occurrence," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington that provides analysis about the death penalty. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 10:28 am by Steve Hall
"In all my research, I have not seen that (pentobarbital) has been used before in this context,'" Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said in a telephone interview. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 4:27 pm by carie
The number for 2009 was 60 per cent less than in the 1990s, Richard Dieter, DPIC director said in a press release.New Mexico became the 15th state to abolish the death penalty, where Governor Bill Richardson observed that life in prison without parole was 'a strong punishment' and noted that the cost of maintaining the death penalty was 'a valid reason (for repeal) in this era of austerity and tight budgets.'In addition, the public is becoming increasingly… [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 5:12 pm
Contents include:Anne Peters, Lucy Koechlin, & Gretta Fenner Zinkernagel, Non-state actors as standard-setters: framing the issue in an interdisciplinary fashion Dieter Neubert, Local and regional non-state actors on the margins of public policy in Africa Dan Assaf, Conceptualising the use of public-private partnerships as a regulatory arrangement in critical information infrastructure protection Lucy Koechlin & Richard Calland, Standard-setting at the cutting edge:… [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 10:53 am
"Florida voters overwhelmingly voted for the death penalty in a referendum, Crist said, and the issue of having the ultimate penalty for the most heinous of crimes is not about money.But other states are going to give serious consideration to dropping their death penalty based on cost this year, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.And:Florida has never had an official study looking at the cost of the death penalty. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 6:05 am
"That is very stark," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit group that has been critical of capital punishment. [read post]
28 Nov 2008, 3:04 pm
., dissenting inpart).Tompkins' stay of execution expires on Nov. 18.For further informationabout Tompkins' case, contact his attorney, Martin McClain, 305-984-8344, email:martymcclain@earthlink.net.For other death penalty information, contactDPIC's Executive Director, Richard Dieter,202-289-2275,email: rdieter@deathpenaltyinfo.org [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 1:48 pm by Steve Hall
Experts Richard Dieter and Kent Scheidegger both explained what the change means in phone interviews with the NewsHour on Thursday. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 3:27 am by SHG
  This  effort goes to the reasons, for all of us, and focuses more on lawyers, including Debby Denno, Jeanne Woodford, David Dow, Peter Neufeld, Richard Dieter and Clive Stafford-Smith, as well as Kathryn. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 9:02 am by Steve Hall
In other states, "some lawyers are saying what's being done in Ohio should be required in their state," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington, D.C. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 8:27 am by Ashby Jones
“It’s the first time we’ve had fewer than 100 new death sentences in a year in the modern era of capital punishment,” said Richard Dieter, executive director of the center, which is largely opposed to the way the death penalty is used in the U.S. [read post]
27 Oct 2009, 12:07 pm
"Thirty-five states still retain the death penalty, but fewer and fewer executions are taking place every year," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. [read post]
9 Oct 2015, 2:06 pm by CJLF Staff
  The article is focused on the fact that there have been fewer death sentences nationally, "especially compared to the 1990s," as noted by death penalty opponent Richard Dieter, who failed to mention that there were also over 56,000 more murders in the US and  5,700 more in Texas during that decade. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 1:19 pm
Montana, Oklahoma and South Carolina have passed similar laws since 2006, and Louisiana and Texas both approved such legislation in the mid-1990s, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington, D.C. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 8:41 am by Steve Hall
“It could be Ohio will surpass all states this year,” said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit group critical of capital punishment.This year, Texas has not had any executions, but plans two later this month. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 5:43 pm
And: No state has followed New Jersey's lead in abolishing capital punishment, though repeal measures in Maryland, New Mexico, Montana and Colorado, have come close, according to Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 8:41 am by Steve Hall
Also eroding support for capital punishment is DNA testing, which has led to the exoneration of scores of inmates convicted of serious crimes, said Richard Dieter, the Washington, D.C., group's director. [read post]
30 May 2009, 5:21 am
Richard Dieter, executive director of the anti-capital punishment Death Penalty Information Center, said that even if Sotomayor opposes the death penalty, it would not preclude her from ruling against defendants "when that's what precedents and the Constitution require. [read post]