Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty
- Leading Law Group Withdraws Model Death Penalty Laws Because System is Unfixable
- U.S. Supreme Court Denies Rehearing in Kennedy v. Louisiana Opinion
- Federal Judge Sharply Criticizes Texas System in Ordering Stay of Execution
- U.S. to Seek Death Penalty under New Military Commissions
- Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty News and Developments - Previous Years
- Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty News and Developments: 2007
- Those Executed Who Did Not Directly Kill the Victim
- Supreme Court Asked to Review Unusual Death Sentence
- EDITORIALS: Death Penalty for Rape Would "Compound the Error"
- AGGRAVATING FACTORS FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BY STATE
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Death Row
- RESOURCES: DEATH ROW USA Winter 2010 Now Available
- EDITORIALS: "What Price is Too High for Death Row?"
- BOOKS: Last Words of the Executed
- The Angolite: A Prison Magazine's Inside View on Choosing Execution
- BOOKS: "Condemned: Letters from Death Row"
- BOOKS: In the Place of Justice--A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
- Death Row Inmates' Long Wait for Execution May Be Second Punishment
- STUDIES: Ohio Releases Annual Capital Crimes Report
- NEW RESOURCES: Death Row USA, Fall 2009
- Governor Postpones Execution of Inmate Found Unconscious in Death Row Cell
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Executions
- National Shortage of Drug for Lethal Injections Leads to Stays of Execution
- California Regulators Reject New Death Penalty Procedures
- BOOKS: The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
- Racial and Geographic Disparities in Ohio Executions
- The Angolite: A Prison Magazine's Inside View on Choosing Execution
- NEW VOICES: American Board of Anesthesiologists Bars Participation in Executions
- California Senate Committee Passes Bill to Adopt One-Drug Lethal Injection
- Governor Postpones Execution of Inmate Found Unconscious in Death Row Cell
- Washington Becomes Second State to Adopt One-Drug Protocol
- NEW VOICES: Medical Society of New Jersey Urges AMA to Oppose Death Penalty
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History of the Death Penalty
- BOOKS: Voices of the Death Penalty Debate
- MULTIMEDIA: NPR Documentary Features Historical Coverage from Mississippi Execution
- BOOKS: No Winners Here Tonight
- NEW RESOURCES: The Espy File on Executions to Become Part of National Archive
- NEW RESOURCES: Native Americans and the Death Penalty
- NEW RESOURCES: Native Americans and the Death Penalty
- BOOKS: "The Death Penalty: America’s Experience with Capital Punishment"
- HISTORY: The Death Penalty Through the Life of Anthony Amsterdam
- Updated Espy File
- NEW RESOURCES: Updated Historical Execution Database Provides Unique Look At History of the Death Penalty in the U.S.
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Murder Rates
Recent Legislative Activity
- NEW VOICES: Ohio "Timeout from Death"-Part II
- FOREIGN NATIONALS: Texas Execution Delayed Following State Department Request
- Innocence Commission Created in Florida
- NEW VOICES: Former New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Calls for Abolition
- BOOKS: Voices of the Death Penalty Debate
- California Regulators Reject New Death Penalty Procedures
- NEW RESOURCES: The State of Criminal Justice 2010
- California Senate Committee Passes Bill to Adopt One-Drug Lethal Injection
- EDITORIALS: "Dollars and Death"
- Washington Becomes Second State to Adopt One-Drug Protocol
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Sentencing
- NEW VOICES: North Carolina District Attorney Notes Decline in Death Sentences
- EDITORIAL: Death Penalty "Neither Just Nor Moral"
- STUDIES: Ohio Releases Annual Capital Crimes Report
- STUDIES: Death Sentences in California Show Arbitrariness of the System
- STUDIES: High Percentage of Death Sentences in North Carolina Later Deemed Excessive
- Declining Use of Death Penalty in North Carolina Challenges Wisdom of Retaining Costly Practice
- NEW RESOURCES: Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Capital Punishment, 2008
- Death Penalty Use in Louisiana Has Sharply Declined
- DPIC's 2009 Year End Report Released
- Death Sentences Have Become Rare in Virginia
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State by State Information
- NEW RESOURCES: Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Capital Punishment, 2008
- NEW RESOURCES: Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Capital Punishment, 2005
- Puerto Rican Court Bars Extradition of Man Facing Death Penalty to Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico and the Death Penalty
- States With and Without the Death Penalty
U.S. Supreme Court
- NEW VOICES: Former Bush Solicitor General Sides with Former Death Row Inmate in Case Before Supreme Court
- Federal Judge Sets High Standard of Proof and Rejects Troy Davis's Innocence Claim
- Briefs Filed in Troy Davis Case in Georgia
- U.S. Supreme Court Orders Reconsideration of Georgia Death Sentence Because of Inadequate Representation
- Federal Court Reviews New Evidence that Might Prove Troy Davis's Innocence
- U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Alabama Inmate's Challenge to Death Sentence
- Supreme Court Agrees to Hear California Death Penalty Case
- Supreme Court Allows Late Appeal Under Extraordinary Circumstances
- Supreme Court Directs Lower Court to Reconsider Death Penalty Decision
- Supreme Court To Hear Case of Texas Death Row Inmate Denied DNA Testing
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