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
- BOOKS: That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
- NEW RESOURCES: Death Row Database Now Available
- Vietnam Vet on Death Row Receives His Medals and Waits for Execution
- NEW RESOURCES: Death Row U.S.A. Winter 2009 Released
- NEW RESOURCES: Latest "Death Row USA" Report Released by NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Supreme Court Justices Raise Concerns About Time on Death Row
- NEW RESOURCES: Death Row U.S.A. 2008 Released
- Costs for New California Death Row Soar to $400 Million
- BOOKS: “Last Rights” by Rev. Joseph Ingle with Introduction by Mike Farrell
- DPIC Releases Interim Death Row Numbers
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Executions
- Ohio Proposes Major Change to Its Execution Process
- EDITORIALS: "Time for America to Move Past Capital Punishment"
- NEW VOICES: Judge Says Death Penalty "too fraught with variables to survive"
- Ohio Executions Put on Hold; Governor Concurs
- Chronology of A Failed Execution
- New Revelations of Inmate's Struggles During Ohio Execution Attempt
- Ohio Execution Halted After First Attempt is Botched
- RESOURCES: Legacy of Watt Espy's Research Lives on After His Death
- LAW REVIEWS: Physician Participation in Lethal Injection Executions
- Top Prison Doctor's Resignation Illustrates Ethical Conflict with Lethal Injection Protocol
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History of the Death Penalty
- 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.
- NEW BOOKS: Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005
- BOOKS: "The Prison and the Gallows"
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Murder Rates
Recent Legislative Activity
- NEW VOICES: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Ready to Close Door on New Mexico's Death Penalty
- Gov. Perdue Signs North Carolina's Racial Justice Act--NAACP Commends Passage
- Racial Justice Act passes in North Carolina
- Murders Drop in New Jersey Following Moratorium and Abolition of Death Penalty
- RACE: Research Experts Say Racial Bias Still Exists in Death Penalty
- RECENT LEGISLATION: Texas to Open First Capital Defense Office for Death Penalty Appeals
- Senator Kennedy Raises Concerns About Expansion of Federal Death Penalty
- Racial Justice Act Passed In North Carolina House and Senate
- Ohio's New Lethal Injection Procedures Include 'Pinching Inmate' to Test for Consciousness
- Alabama's New Law Providing DNA Testing Has Limitations
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Sentencing
- Death Sentences Have Become Rare in Virginia
- Death Sentences Declining in Texas
- Court Pressure in Arizona Leads to Settlements in Death Cases
- Decision to Seek the Death Penalty in One Case Costs Georgia More Than $3 Million
- Death Sentences Decline in Key Louisiana Jurisdiction
- ARBITRARINESS: A Death Penalty Prosecution Instead Settles with a Short Sentence After Misconduct is Revealed
- Indiana Prosecutors Say "We're running out of death row inmates," Citing High Costs of Death Penalty
- NEW RESOURCES: Death Row U.S.A. Winter 2009 Released
- Arbitrariness in Nebraska
- DPIC RESOURCES: Death Sentences on a Per Capita Basis by State and Executions in Proportion to Death Sentences by State
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State by State Information
U.S. Supreme Court
- Supreme Court Decides One Capital Case and Agrees to Hear Another
- U.S. Supreme Court Restores Death Sentence for Ohio Inmate
- Supreme Court to Review Effect of "Gross Negligence" by Death Penalty Attorney
- U.S. Supreme Court Orders Historic Hearing on Innocence Claim in Troy Davis Case
- Supreme Court Rejects Due Process Right to DNA Testing After Trial
- Supreme Court Rules Second Mental Retardation Determination Does Not Constitute Double Jeopardy
- 27 Former Judges and Prosecutors File Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court on Behalf of Troy Davis
- U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Two Death Penalty Cases
- Twenty-five Years After Trial, U.S. Supreme Court Orders New Hearing for Tennessee Death Row Inmate
- Supreme Court Rules that Federal Funding Extends to State Clemency Representation
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