Post by pumpkinpie on Jan 15, 2008 23:22:06 GMT -5
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2007 REPORT
Executions for the year: 42 - lowest in 13 years
% Executions in Texas: 62%
% Executions in South: 86%
Death sentences: 110 projected - lowest in 30 years
Exonerations: 3 - in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and North Carolina
Commutations: 11 - including 1 in Texas and 8 in New Jersey
New States without the death penalty: New Jersey and New York - bringing total to 14 states
National moratorium on executions effectively in place as Supreme Court considers lethal injection protocols.
New Voices:
“I've lived through the state's process of trying to kill , and I can say without hesitation that it is not worth the anguish that it puts survivors through.” - Jim O'Brien of New Jersey, whose daughter was murdered in 1982
"[W]e believe the state of Texas should abandon the death penalty – because we cannot reconcile the fact that it is both imperfect and irreversible. - Editorial, The Dallas Morning News
Read the 2007 Year End Report, released Dec. 18, 2007.
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Executions for the year: 42 - lowest in 13 years
% Executions in Texas: 62%
% Executions in South: 86%
Death sentences: 110 projected - lowest in 30 years
Exonerations: 3 - in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and North Carolina
Commutations: 11 - including 1 in Texas and 8 in New Jersey
New States without the death penalty: New Jersey and New York - bringing total to 14 states
National moratorium on executions effectively in place as Supreme Court considers lethal injection protocols.
New Voices:
“I've lived through the state's process of trying to kill , and I can say without hesitation that it is not worth the anguish that it puts survivors through.” - Jim O'Brien of New Jersey, whose daughter was murdered in 1982
"[W]e believe the state of Texas should abandon the death penalty – because we cannot reconcile the fact that it is both imperfect and irreversible. - Editorial, The Dallas Morning News
Read the 2007 Year End Report, released Dec. 18, 2007.
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org