The Death Penalty Information Center has added a new and ver­sa­tile fea­ture to its exten­sive Web site. Users may now search a ful­ly func­tion­al ​“Executions Database” for detailed infor­ma­tion on all exe­cu­tions in the United States in the mod­ern era, 1977 to the present. The data­base enables users to search by year, by state, by race of defen­dant and vic­tim, and by many oth­er cat­e­gories. For exam­ple, you can now find a list of all the exe­cu­tions in Texas involv­ing white defen­dants, or a list of all the exe­cu­tions by elec­tro­cu­tion since 1990. We believe this fea­ture will be very use­ful, par­tic­u­lar­ly to jour­nal­ists, attor­neys, stu­dents, and oth­er researchers. To use this new data­base, vis­it http://​www​.death​penal​ty​in​fo​.org/​e​x​e​c​u​t​i​o​n​s.php

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