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- BOOKS: "Anatomy of an Execution" 12:45pm Jan 6
- OPINION: "Kill the Death Penalty" 12:09pm Jan 5|2 Comments
- EDITORIALS: "Denial of Death: Time to End Capital Punishment" 11:22am Jan 4|3 Comments
A new book authored by Todd Peppers and Laura Trevvett Anderson, "Anatomy of An Execution," follows the story of Douglas Christopher Thomas, a juvenile offender who was executed in Virginia in 2000. Thomas was convicted of a double homicide in 1990 and sentenced to death in 1991....
The editor of the editorial page of the Palm Beach Post recently called for an end to the death penalty in Florida. Citing DPIC's recent report on the costs of the death penalty, Randy Schultz notes that, "Every objective study shows that life imprisonment costs much less than sentencing someone ...
An editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune recently called for an end to capital punishment, stating that "the legal, moral and practical arguments against capital punishment have evolved from sound to unassailable" since the punishment was reinstated over 30 years ago...
Researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas recently published a study on whether executions deter homicides using state panel date and employing well-known econometric procedures for panel analysis...
Gaile Owens (pictured) and Mary Winkler are two women who committed similar crimes under similar circumstances in Tennessee...
A recent study published by a Duke University economist revealed North Carolina could save $11 million annually if it dropped the death penalty. Philip J...
Los Angeles Chief of Police William Bratton recently defended San Francisco Distrist Attorney Kamala Harris for not seeking the death penalty against a suspect in a police killing. "It's much cheaper to sentence them to life in prison and throw away the key," said Bratton, who is endorsing Harris ...
Twenty-seven people were exonerated and released from prison this year, including some who had been on death row, according to a new report from The Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people. The 27 exonerees ...
County estimates in Texas indicate that the death penalty system is much more expensive than sentencing inmates to life imprisonment...
New evidence in the Troy Davis case in Georgia has recently emerged, further implicating another suspect in the murder of off-duty police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. In 1991, Davis was sentenced to death for officer MacPhail's murder...
A recent New York Times editorial commented on the new one-drug lethal injection protocol used in Ohio for the first time on December 8, but concluded that "the execution only reinforced that any form of capital punishment is legally suspect and morally wrong." The Times agreed with the late ...
On December 15 the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights marked the 20th anniversary of an international death penalty treaty by calling for the universal abolition of capital punishment. Navi Pillay, the top UN human rights official, urged all states to adopt the Optional Protocol to ...
The Death Penalty Information Center released the “The Death Penalty in 2009: Year End Report” on December 18, noting that the country is expected to finish 2009 with the fewest death sentences since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. El...
A recent editorial in the Virginian-Pilot called for eliminating the death penalty as a good way to address the $3.5 billion gap in the state's budget. "Doing away with the option of a death sentence makes sense on several levels," the editors wrote. "It would save th...e state from having to pay f...
A single death penalty case in Indiana can cost taxpayers as much as $1 million. In Marion County, the costs of preparation for three potential death penalty trials have reached $659,000 this year alone, according to the Public Defender Agency...
