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JUST RELEASED: DPIC's 2014 Year-End Report. Death sentences were at a 40-year low and executions were at a 20-year low. Texas, Missouri, and Florida accounted for 80% of all the executions in the United States. There were 7 exonerations this year and it took an average of 30 years to discover their innocence.
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THE DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER HAS JUST RELEASED ITS 2018 YEAR END REPORT.

The long-term decline of death-penalty use in the U.S. continued in 2018, as a twentieth state abolished capital punishment and executions and new death sentences remained near generational lows. On October 11, the Washington State Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty, finding that it was imposed arbitrarily and in a racially discriminatory manner. Washington became the eighth stat...e to legislatively or judicially abolish the death penalty since 2007.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center’s 2018 Year End Report, fourteen states and the federal government have imposed a total of 41 new death sentences this year, with one more death sentence anticipated towards the end of the year. Eight states carried out a total of 25 executions.

Read more here: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/7275.

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The long-term decline of death-penalty use in the U.S. continued in 2018, as a twentieth state abolished capital punishment and executions and new death sentences remained near generational lows. On October 11, the Washington State Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty, finding that ...

Report on “Principles for the 21st Century Prosecutor” Calls for Prosecutors to Work to End Death Penalty.

Read more here: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/7273.

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