Additional Issues
- North Carolina Supreme Court Debates Doctors' Roles in Executions
- Senators Leahy and Specter Introduce Habeas Corpus Restoration Act
- The Military Commissions Act of 2006: A Short Primer
- Terrorism Trial's Strategies Revealed
- U.S. Plans Death Camp
- September 11, 2001: A Forum of Information and News, Especially Related to Capital Punishment
- Terrorist Attacks Affirm Need for a Paradigm Shift
- U.S. death penalty could prove hurdle to extradition of terror suspects from Britain
- The trial of Bin Laden: What to do if terrorist suspect is taken alive?
- World Court Should Hear Sept. 11 Case
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Arbitrariness
- Supreme Court Decides One Capital Case and Agrees to Hear Another
- Leading Law Group Withdraws Model Death Penalty Laws Because System is Unfixable
- Court Pressure in Arizona Leads to Settlements in Death Cases
- NEW VOICES: Judge Says Death Penalty "too fraught with variables to survive"
- OPINION: Florida’s Death Penalty System Still ‘Fraught with Problems’
- STUDIES: Errors by Texas Medical Examiners Led to Wrongful Convictions
- Texas Governor Replaces Members of Commission Examining Possible Wrongful Execution
- No New Trial despite Judge-Prosecutor Affair
- Arson Cases in Texas Under Broader Review
- Texas Inmate Freed From Death Row With Charges Dismissed
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Clemency
- Conditional Pardons Granted for Three of Norfolk Four
- INTERNATIONAL-CLEMENCY: Kenya Commutes 4,000 Death Sentences
- Ohio Parole Board Recommends Clemency for Death Row Inmate
- NEW RESOURCES: DPIC Offers Podcasts on Costs, Clemency, and Arbitrariness
- 27 Former Judges and Prosecutors File Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court on Behalf of Troy Davis
- NEW VOICES: Missouri Republicans Raise Death Penalty Concerns
- NEW RESOURCES: Amnesty International Report Focuses on Executions in Texas
- Troy Davis Appeal Rejected; Oklahoma Board Recommends Clemency for Donald Gilson
- UPCOMING EXECUTION: Man to be Executed Changed Lives While on Death Row
- Texas Execution Scheduled Despite Allegations of Obstruction of Justice
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Costs
- NEW VOICES: Washington State Law Enforcement Officials Express Doubts About Death Penalty
- DPIC's Report on Costs and Police Views Subject of Bob Edwards Interview
- NEW VOICES: Former Kentucky Officials Rethinking the Wisdom of High Death Penalty Expenditures
- The Death Penalty in the State of Washington
- EDITORIALS: "Death penalty just too costly"
- Georgia Supreme Court to Consider Effects of Delayed and Unfunded Representation in Death Penalty Case
- NEW VOICES: The High Cost of the Death Penalty in Mississippi
- EDITORIALS: The Price of Death
- DPIC Releases New Report on Costs of the Death Penalty and Police Chiefs' Views
- EDITORIALS: "High Cost of Death Row"
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Deterrence
- NEW VOICES: Washington State Law Enforcement Officials Express Doubts About Death Penalty
- DPIC Releases New Report on Costs of the Death Penalty and Police Chiefs' Views
- STUDIES: FBI Uniform Crime Report Finds Murder Rates Declined in 2008
- OPINION: San Francisco Chronicle Addresses "The High Cost of Vengeance"
- Murders Drop in New Jersey Following Moratorium and Abolition of Death Penalty
- NEW VOICES: Experts Find Little Benefit to Justify California's Expensive Death Penalty
- STUDIES: Majority of Leading Criminologists Find Death Penalty Does Not Deter Murder
- NEW VOICES: Montana Prosecutor Says Death Penalty Doesn't Keep Correctional Officers Safe
- Number of Police Officers Killed by Gunfire is Lowest in 50 Years
- STUDIES: Higher Murder Rates Related to Gun Laws
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Federal Death Penalty
- Death Penalty Sentences Have Dropped Considerably in the Current Decade
- First US Military Execution Since 1961 Scheduled for December
- Changes in Federal Death Penalty Statistics
- NEW RESOURCES: Representation and Costs in Federal Death Penalty Cases
- NEW VOICES: Former U.S. Attorney Cites Improper Pressure in Use of Federal Death Penalty
- Death Penalty Poses Problems for Military Commission Trials
- NEW RESOURCES: “Confronting Evil: Victims’ Rights in an Age of Terror”
- NEW VOICES: U.S. Attorney General Opposes Death Sentences in Military Commission Trials
- New Yorkers Showing Resistance to Federal Death Penalty
- NEW VOICES: Federal Judge Says Seeking Death Sentence not Worth the Costs
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Foreign Nationals
- NEW VOICES: Former State Department Official Urges President to Implement Ruling of World Court
- Ecuador Seeks Return of Florida Death Row Inmate
- International Law Experts Question Supreme Court Decision in Medellin Case
- Execution of Foreign Nationals Raises Legal Concerns
- NEW VOICES: Request for Texas to Honor Treaty for Safety of U.S. Citizens Abroad
- International Court of Justice Orders US to Stay 5 executions
- Mexico Asks World Court to Stay U.S. Executions of Foreign Nationals
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- U.S. Supreme Court Exempts Texas Courts from World Court Ruling
- Foreign Nationals News and Developments: 2007
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Innocence
- BOOKS: The Last Lawyer--The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates
- All Charges Dismissed Against Former Texas Death Row Inmate--139th Exoneration Nationally
- NEW VOICES: Former Texas Governor Now Expresses Doubts About Death Penalty
- Two More Exonerations From Death Row: 137th and 138th Persons Freed in Oklahoma
- Michael Toney, Recently Exonerated from Death Row in Texas, Dies in Car Crash
- STUDIES: Errors by Texas Medical Examiners Led to Wrongful Convictions
- Texas Governor Replaces Members of Commission Examining Possible Wrongful Execution
- Congress Conducts Hearings on the Innocence Protection Act
- Arson Cases in Texas Under Broader Review
- Florida Inmate Who Faced Death Penalty at 15 to be Freed 26 Years Later
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International
- NEW RESOURCES: The Status of the Death Penalty in Countries Comprising the European Security Area
- INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES: Death Penalty Lessons from Asia
- INTERNATIONAL: Use of Death Penalty May Sharply Decline in Japan
- NEW RESOURCES: A Report on Mandatory Death Sentences
- INTERNATIONAL-CLEMENCY: Kenya Commutes 4,000 Death Sentences
- NEW VOICES: Former State Department Official Urges President to Implement Ruling of World Court
- U.N. Special Investigator Report: U.S. Death Penalty Leads to Miscarriage of Justice
- Ecuador Seeks Return of Florida Death Row Inmate
- STUDIES: Amnesty International Reports World Moving Away from Death Penalty
- BOOKS: The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia
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Juveniles
- Florida Inmate Who Faced Death Penalty at 15 to be Freed 26 Years Later
- NOW PLAYING IN NY: “The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley,” a Play by John Fleming
- Former Death Row Inmate Acquitted at Re-Trial
- Texas Governor Commutes 28 Juvenile Offender Death Sentences
- Supreme Court Bans Execution of Juvenile Offenders
- NEW RESOURCE: Study Examines Mental Status and Childhood Backgrounds of Juveniles on Death Row
- Arizona Case Exposes Prosecutorial Misconduct and Wrongful Convictions
- Psychiatrists Question Death for Teen Killers
- New research shows stark differences in teen brains
- What Makes Teens Tick; A flood of hormones, sure. But also a host of structural changes in the brain. Can those explain the behaviors that make adolescence so exciting--and so exasperating?
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Life Without Parole
- Death Sentences Have Become Rare in Virginia
- Death Sentences Declining in Texas
- NEW VOICES: 'Zachary's Law' Case Settles with a Life Sentence; Victim's Family Given Finality
- NEW RESOURCES: State Instructions for Juries Regarding Life Without Parole Sentences in Capital Cases
- Oklahoma Governor Commutes Death Sentence at Juror's and Parole Board's Request
- Execution Stayed Because Jurors May Have Been Misinformed about Life Sentence
- STUDIES: Ohio Prosecutors Increasingly Seeking Life Without Parole Instead of Death Penalty
- STUDIES: Ohio Prosecutors Increasingly Seeking Life Without Parole Instead of Death Penalty
- Ohio Prosecutors Seeking Life Without Parole Instead of Death Penalty
- Police Chief Given Life after Victim's Family Speaks Against Death Sentence
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Mental Illness
- Vietnam Vet on Death Row Receives His Medals and Waits for Execution
- STUDIES: "Double Tragedies": Mental Illness and the Death Penalty
- Texas Court Rejects Appeal Calling Inmate "Crazy" but "Sane"
- NEW RESOURCES: The Supreme Court’s Emerging Death Penalty Jurisprudence: Severe Mental Illness as the Next Frontier
- Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights and the National Alliance on Mental Illness To Launch National Project
- Federal Judge Sharply Criticizes Texas System in Ordering Stay of Execution
- Pennsylvania Court Allows Forced Medication of Mentally Incompetent Death Row Inmates, Moving Them Closer to Execution
- Pennsylvania Court Allows Forced Medication of Mentally Incompetent Death Row Inmates, Moving Them Closer to Execution
- VA Governor Commutes Death Sentence of Mentally Ill Man
- Severely Mentally Ill Death Row Inmate Resentenced to Life 27 Years After Crime
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Mental Retardation
- Supreme Court Rules Second Mental Retardation Determination Does Not Constitute Double Jeopardy
- U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Two Death Penalty Cases
- Virginia Scheduled to Execute Man Whose Lawyers Failed Him
- U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Mental Retardation Case
- Upcoming Arkansas Execution In Doubt Because of Lethal Injection Problems and Clemency Recommendation
- After 27 Years on Death Row, California Man's Sentence Reduced to Life
- Arkansas Parole Board Recommends Life Without Parole for Mentally Disabled Man
- Mental Retardation Group Pleads for Clemency for Mentally Disabled Man in Arkansas
- VA Governor Commutes Death Sentence of Mentally Ill Man
- NEW RESOURCES: Sentence Reversals in Mental Retardation Cases
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Race
- STUDIES: FBI Uniform Crime Report Finds Murder Rates Declined in 2008
- Gov. Perdue Signs North Carolina's Racial Justice Act--NAACP Commends Passage
- Racial Justice Act passes in North Carolina
- RACE: Research Experts Say Racial Bias Still Exists in Death Penalty
- Racial Justice Act Passed In North Carolina House and Senate
- Racial Justice Act Moves Closer to Passage in North Carolina
- NEW RESOURCES: Death Row U.S.A. Winter 2009 Released
- NEW RESOURCES: Latest "Death Row USA" Report Released by NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- BOOKS: Thomas Cahill's "Story of Dominique Green"
- BOOKS: Life and Death Matters: Seeking the Truth About Capital Punishment
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Representation
- BOOKS: The Last Lawyer--The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates
- Supreme Court Decides One Capital Case and Agrees to Hear Another
- U.S. Supreme Court Restores Death Sentence for Ohio Inmate
- Georgia Supreme Court to Consider Effects of Delayed and Unfunded Representation in Death Penalty Case
- LAW REVIEW: Death Penalty Stories
- STUDIES: Disparities in Legal Representation in Harris County, Texas
- Supreme Court to Review Effect of "Gross Negligence" by Death Penalty Attorney
- OPINION: Florida’s Death Penalty System Still ‘Fraught with Problems’
- Congress Conducts Hearings on the Innocence Protection Act
- COSTS: Georgia Death Penalty Case Still Waiting for Trial After Four Years Due to Lack of Funding
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U.S. Military
- STUDIES: Disparate Administration of the Military Death Penalty
- ARBITRARINESS: U.S. Military Rejects Guilty Plea Offer to Seek Death Penalty and Soldier is Freed
- First US Military Execution Since 1961 Scheduled for December
- Is The Bush Administration Right to Seek the Death Penalty for 9/11 Captives?
- Military News and Developments: 2007
- The Military Commissions Act of 2006: A Short Primer
- INTERNATIONAL SECOND THOUGHTS: Great Britain Moves to Pardon 300 Soldiers Executed During War
- US Military News and Developments - Previous Years
- Jury Sentences Airman to Death
- Soldier Sentenced to Death for Iraq War Murder
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Victims
- NEW VOICES: 'Zachary's Law' Case Settles with a Life Sentence; Victim's Family Given Finality
- OPINION: San Francisco Chronicle Addresses "The High Cost of Vengeance"
- BOOKS: "The Crying Tree"
- Family of Six-Year-Old Murder Victim Doesn't Want to Seek Death Penalty
- BOOKS--The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father’s Journey from Rage to Redemption
- Death Penalty Abolished in New Mexico--Governor Says Repeal Will Make the State Safer
- Ohio Governor Grants Death Row Inmate Clemency
- Ohio Parole Board Unanimously Recommends Clemency For Death Row Inmate
- Victims' Families Ask State to End Death Penalty and Solve Cold Cases Instead
- EDITORIAL: Imperfections Abound with Death Penalty
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Women
- STUDIES: Death Penalty for Female Offenders
- ARTICLES:The Story of a Death Row Inmate Who Wanted to Die
- NEW RESOURCES: Women and the Death Penalty
- Women News and Developments - 2007
- ARBITRARINESS: Woman Faces Federal Death Sentence While Triggerman Receives 17 Years
- Texas Court Grants Stay on Basis of Possible Innocence
- Texas Medical Examiner No Longer Stands by Testimony that sent Woman to Death Row
- Two New Federal Death Sentences in Non-Death Penalty State
- Texas High Court Dismisses Woman's Death Sentence As Unsupported by the Evidence
- Upcoming Texas Execution Raises Questions of Appropriate Sentence
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