DOJ Publishes Annual Captial Punishment Report
Good news on the death penalty front....from the Criminal Justice Reform Education Fund:
The DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics published its annual Capital Punishment
report for 2002. The report can be found here.
Although there was an increase in the number of executions last in 2002, the number of death sentences continued to decline. This demonstrates the increasing skepticism with capital punishement, as highlighted on page 8:
"The 159 admissions to death row in 2002 marked a further decline from the 163 admissions recorded in 2001, and represented the smallest number received in a year since 44 persons were admitted in 1973. Between 1994 and 2000, in contrast, an average of 297 inmates per year were admitted."
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