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5 Aug 2007, 2:48 am
By Anne HartCreated 2007-08-04 23:30People who support the death penalty often sound so moral.After all, they're anti-crime. [read post]
23 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
And in most places that have the death penalty on the books, death row inmates have a better chance of dying of natural causes than of being executed.As Robert Dunham, formerly Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, explains, there is a lot of “inertia” about the death penalty even where it is legal. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 7:03 pm
Green State Motion Reconsider The State’s Motion to Reconsider suggests that Judge Fine’s ruling was predicated on inaccurate information—that Quinones is not the law even in the 2nd Circuit, that only about ten death row dwellers have been exonerated by DNA evidence (pick your statistic—the Death Penalty Information Center says that at least 48 people “have been released from prison after serving time on… [read post]
4 Jan 2007, 11:34 pm
"The death penalty is on the defensive," said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington organization that looks at problems with the capital punishment system. [read post]
10 Jun 2007, 3:20 am
We believe the evidence fails to make that case:- An analysis by the Death Penalty Information Center indicates that the average murder rates in states with the death penalty were much higher, at 5.3 per 100,000, in 2005, than in states without the death penalty, which averaged a rate of 2.8. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 4:26 pm
"High expenses with no measurable benefits were frequently cited in legislative debates about the death penalty," said Friday's report by the Death Penalty Information Center.The center does not specify an opinion about the death penalty but has been called anti-capital punishment.Kansas costsIn Kansas, seeking the death penalty costs four times more in legal fees than not pursuing it, according… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 12:13 pm
Just last month, we blogged the news out of the Death Penalty Information Center that, while executions were up slightly in ‘09, juries appear increasingly less willing to impose them. [read post]
6 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm
Gross.Anti-death penalty activists and death penalty supporters across the United States are watching the Oklahoma litigation closely. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 1:48 pm
It was around this time two years ago that Breyer made huge headlines when he wrote a dissent, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, calling for a wholesale re-examination of the constitutionality of the death penalty: “[R]ather than try to patch up the death penalty’s legal wounds one at a time, I would ask for full briefing on a more basic question: whether the death penalty violates the Constitution. [read post]
19 May 2024, 3:00 am
The remaining 29 either have no death penalty or paused executions due to executive action — including California, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 9:57 am
The Death Penalty Information Center Web site says capital punishment was codified in Babylon in the 18th century B.C. for 25 different crimes. [read post]
9 May 2009, 4:42 am
New Jersey abolished the death penalty in 2007.Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Texas considered abolishing the death penalty, but bills in those states have stalled, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. [read post]
24 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
But first, let’s look at the national picture.According to the Death Penalty Information Center’s execution database, there have been 18 executions this year. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 5:43 pm
A new poll by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a Washington, D.C. [read post]
31 May 2007, 2:03 am
" Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center, said doctors are now more vocal on the subject because of an increased focus on the mechanics of lethal injection. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 4:18 pm
Court orders to delete DNS entries are dangerously closed to being a semi-legal version of the Internet Death Penalty of techie lore, i.e. blocking all packets from a particular domain as an anti-spam measure. [read post]
23 Nov 2010, 10:22 am
At least we're seeing a start down that path. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:02 pm
If you think it can’t happen, you’re wrong. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 8:06 am
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, a study was done in the early 2000s regarding the cost of the death penalty in Kansas. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 1:41 pm
Just last month, we blogged the news out of the Death Penalty Information Center that, while executions were up slightly in ‘09, juries appear increasingly less willing to impose them. [read post]
