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Jan 07, 2013

EDITORIALS: ​“Florida’s Death Penalty Needs a Fresh Look”

A recent edi­to­r­i­al in Florida​’s Tampa Bay Times called for law­mak­ers to study the state’s death penal­ty because of its high num­ber of exon­er­a­tions and death sen­tences. Using infor­ma­tion from DPIC’s recent 2012 Year End Report, the edi­to­r­i­al not­ed that 2012 marked the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year in which the state led the coun­try in new death sen­tences. The edi­to­r­i­al sug­gest­ed that one of the rea­sons for these num­bers was like­ly Florida’s fail­ure to…

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Jan 04, 2013

Many States to Consider Death Penalty Abolition and Reform in 2013

As leg­isla­tive ses­sions begin across the coun­try, leg­is­la­tors in sev­er­al states have pro­posed bills to abol­ish or reform the death penal­ty in 2013. In Alabama, Sen. Hank Sanders will intro­duce bills to abol­ish the death penal­ty, or alter­na­tive­ly to insti­tute a series of reforms. ​“I believe the death penal­ty is not only unpro­duc­tive but counter-pro­duc­tive,” he said. Texas will also con­sid­er a num­ber of death penal­ty reform bills, includ­ing restric­tions on…

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Jan 03, 2013

DPIC’S YEAR END REPORT: What the Media Are Saying

DPIC’s 2012 Year End Report received exten­sive media cov­er­age in the U.S. and inter­na­tion­al­ly. Coverage includ­ed pieces by the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Reuters, New York Times, CNN, and hun­dreds of oth­er out­lets. National broad­cast out­lets such as NPR, MSNBC, and CBS Radio also ran pieces. Many papers edi­to­ri­al­ized about the…

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Jan 02, 2013

EDITORIALS: ​“America’s Retreat From the Death Penalty”

Following the themes of DPIC’s 2012 Year End Report, the lead edi­to­r­i­al for Jan. 2 in the New York Times con­clud­ed that ​“cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment is cru­el and unusu­al” as judged by the coun­try’s ​“evolv­ing stan­dards” of decen­cy and ​“should be abol­ished” by the Supreme Court. The Times​’s edi­to­r­i­al not­ed the few­er num­ber of states car­ry­ing out exe­cu­tions, the lack of any mean­ing­ful ratio­nale, the arbi­trari­ness of its appli­ca­tion, and…

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Dec 31, 2012

Characteristics of Women on Death Row (as of December 2012)

Professor Victor L. Streib of the Ohio Northern University College of Law ana­lyzed the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the women on death row as of December 2012. He found that the ages of the women then on death row ranged from age 28 to 79 years old. They had been on death row from a few months to more than 26…

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Dec 31, 2012

Jared Loughner — Arizona Shootings

Plea Bargain in Arizona Case: Jared Loughner pled guilty in fed­er­al court on August 7 to the shoot­ings in 2011 that left 6 peo­ple dead and 13 wound­ed, includ­ing Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (pic­tured). He will be sen­tenced to life with­out parole. Former Rep. Giffords and her hus­band Mark Kelly said they con­curred with the plea agree­ment. Mr. Kelly said, ​“Avoiding a tri­al will allow us — and we hope the whole Southern Arizona com­mu­ni­ty to con­tin­ue with our recov­ery and move forward…

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