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title: "2007: DPIC's Year End Report"
description: 'U.S. Supreme Court stayed the Alabama execution scheduled for night of Jan. 31. Watch the Independent Film Channel’s piece on the U.S. Supreme Court case…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/2007-dpics-year-end-report'
section: news
date: '2007-12-26T17:12:40-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:54:18-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
---

**U.S. Supreme Court stayed the Alabama execution scheduled for night of Jan. 31.**

[Watch](http://www.ifc.com/static/bc/ifc_video.html?bcpid=348471145&bclid=203709770&bctid=1381682476) the [Independent Film Channel](https://www.ifc.com/)'s piece on the U.S. Supreme Court case regarding lethal injection, Baze v. Rees. The video also includes a discussion of death penalty trends with DPIC's Richard Dieter and an interview with former Texas death row chaplain Carroll Pickett.

**2007: DPIC's Year End Report**

**HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2007 REPORT**  
 **Executions** for the year: 42 - lowest in 13 years   
**% Executions in Texas**: 62%  
**% Executions in South**: 86%

**Death sentences**: 110 projected - lowest in 30 years  
**Exonerations**: 3 - in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and North Carolina  
**Commutations**: 11 - including 1 in Texas and 8 in New Jersey  
**New States without the death penalty**: New Jersey and New York - bringing total to 14 states

**National moratorium** on executions effectively in place as Supreme Court considers lethal injection protocols.

**New Voices:**  
 “I've lived through the state's process of trying to kill \[a murderer\], and I can say without hesitation that it is not worth the anguish that it puts survivors through.” - **Jim O'Brien of New Jersey, whose daughter was murdered in 1982**

"\[W\]e believe the state of Texas should abandon the death penalty – because we cannot reconcile the fact that it is both imperfect and irreversible. - **Editorial, The Dallas Morning News**

Read the [2007 Year End Report](../2007YearEnd.pdf), released Dec. 18, 2007.