The death penalty
Death Penalty Information Center
New Resource: Updated Death Penalty Census. DPI's database of more than 9,800 death sentences imposed between the Supreme Court ruling striking down U.S. death ...
Death Penalty - Amnesty International
We know that, together, we can end the death penalty everywhere. Every day, people are executed and sentenced to death by the state as punishment for a variety ...
Death Penalty | Equal Justice Initiative
1 in 8. For every eight people executed, one person on death row has been exonerated. The same factors drive wrongful convictions in non-capital cases and death ...
Capital punishment - Wikipedia
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for ...
Death Penalty - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org
The death penalty (also called capital punishment) is the “execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense ...
The Federal Death Penalty System: Supplementary Data, Analysis ...
The federal offenses for which the death penalty is currently authorized generally require as a necessary element the killing of a victim, but they include a ...
Facts about the Death Penalty - dpic-cdn.org
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 ...
Capital punishment | Definition, Debate, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
Capital punishment, execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense.
Death Row Information - Texas Department of Criminal Justice
In 1973, revision to the Texas Penal Code once again allowed assessment of the death penalty and allowed for executions to resume effective January 1, 1974.
Innocence and the Death Penalty
Since 1973, at least 200 people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S., according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). A 2014 study ...
Death Row / Institutions - Florida Department of Corrections
In 1976 the Supreme Court overturned its ruling in Furman and upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty in the case of Gregg vs. Georgia. Executions ...
Death penalty incompatible with right to life. The infliction of the death penalty is incompatible with the right to life and is difficult to reconcile with the ...
California Capital Punishment - CDCR
... the death penalty. The individual is to be kept in a California prison until execution of the judgment. CDCR may transfer the individual to another prison ...
Home — Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide
Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. Sharing knowledge, empowering human rights defenders, and building transnational communities to ensure justice ...
Death Penalty Issues - The Advocates for Human Rights
Here is a summary of the 20 most common human rights violations connected to the death penalty. 1. Capital Punishment is Cruel and Inhuman
Death Row USA: Death Penalty Cases and Statistics by State
The death penalty is infected with fundamental flaws, including persistent racism, and human error. LDF's Death Row USA reports contain death row ...
10 facts about the death penalty in the U.S. - Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
Capital Punishment | American Civil Liberties Union
The death penalty in America is a broken process from start to finish ...
death penalty | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty does not violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, but the Eighth Amendment does ...
International Commission against the Death Penalty
ICDP was established in order to contribute with its work to promote, complement or support any action which aims at obtaining the abolition of the death ...