Death Penalty

Introduction: Death Penalty

POSTS:

• Decline in death sentences continues

• Poor representation and override by judges contributes to death in Alabama

• Arbitrary as Ever (Part II): 85% of Counties Have Not Sentenced to Death A Single Person Who Has Been Executed Since 1976.

• Arbitrary as ever: Only 10% of counties in the country have imposed a death sentence in the last 6 years.

• Six capital trials and still no justice for Curtis Flowers in Mississippi

• Death trials that are a “charade” and a farce do not deter Kentucky’s efforts to execute

• Virginia kills borderline mentally retarded woman who plead guilty

• DEA Seizes Georgia’s lethal drugs; controversy over how to execute continues