Texas Bucks Trend of Fewer Death Sentences
Last week we reported on a new study finding that death sentences in the U.S. have sharply declined. The San Antonio Express-News today informs this is not the case with Texas.
Courts nationwide handed out about half as many death sentences in each of the past four years as they did on average in the 1990s....Death penalties in Texas declined only 6 percent in that time span.
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