McClatchy - The number of executions in the United States hit a 20-year low in 2014, according to a report issued Thursday.
The 35 executions this year, the fewest since 1994, marked a continued decline in the ultimate sanction. The 72 new death sentences in 2014 were likewise the lowest number in the modern era of the death penalty, dating back to 1974.
Death sentence have declined by 77 percent since 1996, when there were 315, according to the tally by the Death Penalty Information Center.
2 comments:
Hopefully juries are refusing to give death sentences, but I also believe that violent crime is down.
As US turns toward torture, never ending "death row" fits right in with never ending war on terror and drugs. Just not sure how threatening 12 year old males fit in. Let God sort them out??
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