Death Penalty Information Center

Features the latest news, court rulings and information relating to the death penalty.

Author: The news feed is published by the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit.

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Recent Posts from Death Penalty Information Center

STUDIES: Disparate Administration of the Military Death Penalty
A recent study of the military death penalty by Professor David Baldus revealed disparities depending on whether the victim in the underlying crime was also a member of the military or was a civilian. The…
LAW REVIEWS: The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty
The Tennessee Law Review recently published a compilation of articles and essays from its colloquium, "The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty," held in February 2009. Contributors focused on issues that have influenced…
EDITORIALS: "Death penalty just too costly"
A recent opinion piece by the Editorial Director of the Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi points to the high costs of the death penalty as a way in which arbitrariness enters into the application of capital punishment:…
Georgia Supreme Court to Consider Effects of Delayed and Unfunded Representation in Death Penalty Case
On November 10, the Georgia Supreme Court will hear arguments from attorneys for a capital defendant, Jamie Weis, and from the state concerning a three-and-a-half year delay in bringing his case to trial. For two…
NEW VOICES: The High Cost of the Death Penalty in Mississippi
The costs of the death penalty have been a burden on various counties in Mississippi for many years. Quitman County was forced to raise taxes for three years and borrowed $150,000 to provide legal counsel…
EDITORIALS: The Price of Death
A recent editorial in America Magazine entitled The Price of Death reviewed the growing problems with the death penalty and stated, "It is time for the nation to conclude once and for all that in…
All Charges Dismissed Against Former Texas Death Row Inmate--139th Exoneration Nationally
On October 28, 2009, Travis County, Texas, prosecutors moved to dismiss all charges against Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen, who had been convicted of the murder of four teens in an Austin yogurt shop in…
EDITORIALS: "Time for America to Move Past Capital Punishment"
A recent editorial from the Aurora Sentinel in Colorado commented on the botched execution of Romell Broom. The paper entitled its position as “Time for America to move past capital punishment.” In addition to citing…
NEW RESOURCES: The Status of the Death Penalty in Countries Comprising the European Security Area
The OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the world's largest regional security organization comprised of 56 States including the U.S., recently published a 2009 Background Paper on The Death Penalty in the OSCE…
Leading Law Group Withdraws Model Death Penalty Laws Because System is Unfixable
The Council of the American Law Institute (ALI) recently voted to withdraw a section of its Model Penal Code concerned with capital punishment because of the "current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a…