{"id":354,"date":"2003-12-21T00:49:17","date_gmt":"2003-12-21T05:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/jurydelivered_death_sentences\/"},"modified":"2003-12-21T00:49:17","modified_gmt":"2003-12-21T05:49:17","slug":"jurydelivered_death_sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/jurydelivered_death_sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury-Delivered Death Sentences on the Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the best efforts of John Ashcroft<\/a>, juries continue to issue fewer death penalty sentences<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For the fourth straight year, the number of death sentences handed out by the nation’s juries has declined — a fact that opponents and reformers say indicates increasing public awareness of problems with the American system of capital punishment.
\nIn its year-end report, the Death Penalty Information Center projects approximately 138 death sentences for 2003, 20 below last year and less than half the number recorded annually during much of the 1990s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many attribute the decline to renewed scrutiny of the system:<\/p>\n

“I think there’s no doubt whatsoever that everyone is taking a hard second look,” said Eric Freedman, a law professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who has been active in the movement for capital punishment reform. “Even those people who support the idea of the death penalty are convinced now that our existing system is in need of significant reforms if it is to survive.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s hope this re-examination continues.
\nVia TalkLeft<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the best efforts of John Ashcroft, juries continue to issue fewer death penalty sentences: For the fourth straight year, the number of death sentences handed out by the nation’s juries has declined — a fact that opponents and reformers say indicates increasing public awareness of problems with the American system of capital punishment. In […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}