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Sep 08, 2022

Commentary: Indiana Death Penalty — Expensive, Unreliable, and Withering on the Vine

With no exe­cu­tions in more than a decade and no new death sen­tences since 2014, Indianas cost­ly death penal­ty has reached a de fac­to mora­to­ri­um,” says Indiana Capital Chronicle edi­tor-in-chief Niki Kelly. “[M]aybe it’s time to be intel­lec­tu­al­ly hon­est and admit Indiana no longer has the death penal­ty,” Kelly wrote in a September 22022