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 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, released Dec. 18, 2007.

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