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On June 18, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana vacated his death sentence, finding that he was ineligible for the death penalty because of intellectual disability. That ruling was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on September 22, 2020.
1 Απρ 2024 · July 22, 2021 - US Department of Justice Withdraws Death Penalty in Seven Cases. As reported by the New York Times on July 22, 2021, the US Justice Department has quietly withdrawn the death penalty in seven cases over the past several months. In each case, prosecutors were directed by the Trump Justice Department to seek the death penalty.
15 Δεκ 2020 · The interplay of four forces shaped the U.S. death penalty landscape in 2020: the nation’s long-term trend away from capital punishment; the worst global pandemic in more than a century;...
A comprehensive study of the death penalty in North Carolina found that the odds of receiving a death sentence rose by 3.5 times among those defendants whose victims were white. (Prof. Jack Boger and Dr. Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina, 2001).
This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it?
17 Νοε 2023 · This report presents statistics on prisoners who were under sentence of death in 2021, a summary of state and federal death penalty laws in 2021, and historical trends in executions.
This third edition of Death Penalty Cases is a substantial revision that nonethe-less retains the qualities and essential format of previous versions. It contin-ues to present substantial verbatim excerpts from the most important United States Supreme Court decisions on the death penalty.
