The release of the annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center follows recent polls showing a withering of support for capital punishment over controversial cases like that of Troy Davis, who was executed in Georgia in September. The decline in the use of the death penalty also has likely been influenced by states’ worsening financial conditions, said Richard Dieter, the center’s executive director.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Death Sentences, Executions Take 'Historic Drop,' Report Says
The number of death sentences imposed in the U.S. has taken an “historic drop” -- about 75 percent -- over the last 15 years, accompanied by a nearly 60 percent decline in the number of executions, a death penalty awareness group reported Thursday.
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I guess all the governors who signed off on the death sentence, only to be proven wrong by DNA evidence (still, however, unable to wipe the blood off their hands), decided they just didn't have the convictions of people like Perry, who is PROUD that he has killed so many people, and despite the PROOF that many on death row are INNOCENT, doesn't think HE had ANY of them.
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