DPIC Year-End Reports

DPIC Year-End Reports

Dec 01, 1997

As of December 15, 1997, there were 74 exe­cu­tions in the coun­try this year, 18 more than in 1995, the pre­vi­ous record year.

DPIC Year-End Reports

Dec 17, 1996

The over­all pace of exe­cu­tions in the United States remained high in 1996 and the prospects for the future are for even greater num­bers of peo­ple put to death each year. Texas, the nation’s leader in exe­cu­tions for many years, vir­tu­al­ly stopped exe­cu­tions this year pend­ing res­o­lu­tion of a chal­lenge to the state’s new appeal laws.

DPIC Year-End Reports

Dec 15, 1995

Contrary to the pop­u­lar mis­con­cep­tion that death row inmates are grant­ed ​“end­less appeals,” there have been 313 exe­cu­tions since the death penal­ty was rein­stat­ed in 1976.