Publications & Testimony

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Jul 04, 1999

Freed from Death Row

In his wal­let, Juan Florencio Ramos car­ries a pre-prison pho­to­graph of him­self. Because of a five-year ordeal too painful to for­get, Ramos now says: That per­son is not me.” [Times pho­to: Pam…

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Dec 31, 1998

Summaries of Additional Deterrence Studies

Deterrence & Murder of Police Officers - According to sta­tis­tics from the lat­est FBI Uniform Crime Report, regions of the coun­try that use the death penal­ty the least are the safest for police offi­cers. Police are most in dan­ger in the south, which accounts for 80% of all exe­cu­tions (90% in 2000). From 1989 – 1998, 292 law enforce­ment offi­cers were felo­nious­ly killed in the south, 125 in the west, 121 in…

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