DPIC: Executions and death sentences drop to new lows in 2014
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
March 28, 2024, 03:03:37 AM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  U.S. General Discussion (Moderators: The Dowager Mod, Chancellor Tanterterg)
  DPIC: Executions and death sentences drop to new lows in 2014
« previous next »
Pages: [1]
Author Topic: DPIC: Executions and death sentences drop to new lows in 2014  (Read 1171 times)
Tender Branson
Mark Warner 08
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 58,173
Austria


Political Matrix
E: -6.06, S: -4.84

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« on: December 18, 2014, 02:59:42 AM »

Well, the death sentences are at a 40-year low, while executions are at a 20-year low:

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.



http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-executions-death-sentences-reach-multiyear-lows-1418879365

http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/YearEnd2014.pdf
Logged
Lief 🗽
Lief
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,875


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2014, 03:03:42 AM »

The prisoners on death row weren't taken off of it when NM, MD and CT abolished the death penalty? That sucks...
Logged
Tender Branson
Mark Warner 08
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 58,173
Austria


Political Matrix
E: -6.06, S: -4.84

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2014, 03:09:42 AM »

The prisoners on death row weren't taken off of it when NM, MD and CT abolished the death penalty? That sucks...

No, because the law was not made retroactively.

CT still has 12 on death row, MD 4 and NM 2.

Plus, Wyoming has the death penalty - but nobody is currently on death row.
Logged
Tender Branson
Mark Warner 08
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 58,173
Austria


Political Matrix
E: -6.06, S: -4.84

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2014, 03:30:10 AM »

PA, DE, CA & OR really stand out on this map among Dem. states.

At least OR and PA have quasi-moratoriums in place and CA's DP was ruled unconstitutional during the summer.
Logged
Cubby
Pim Fortuyn
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 5,067
Israel


Political Matrix
E: -3.74, S: -6.96

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2014, 10:17:37 PM »

The prisoners on death row weren't taken off of it when NM, MD and CT abolished the death penalty? That sucks...

No, because the law was not made retroactively.

CT still has 12 on death row, MD 4 and NM 2.

Plus, Wyoming has the death penalty - but nobody is currently on death row.

The only reason the Connecticut law wasn't made retroactive is because of the 2007 Cheshire murder case. Hopefully in a few years when people calm down about that case it will be abolished entirely.
Logged
pbrower2a
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 26,841
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2014, 11:28:13 PM »

The prisoners on death row weren't taken off of it when NM, MD and CT abolished the death penalty? That sucks...

The two on Connecticut's Death Row were the pair who committed of the most horrific crime sprees in history. Paradoxically Connecticut becomes a non-death-penalty state only when the two murderers die or should capital punishment be abolished altogether. The last person executed in Connecticut was a serial killer was executed after 18 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut,_home_invasion_murders
Logged
Beet
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 28,802


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2014, 12:04:13 AM »

I wish Justices Brennan and Marshall were alive to see this.
Logged
pbrower2a
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 26,841
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2014, 09:00:22 AM »

Violent crime rates have gone down in part due to the disappearance of lead in the environment. Lead, an insidious poison, created behavioral pathologies and learning disabilities. Bullet-proof vests have made it less likely that a crook shoots a cop and gets away for a few hours only to get caught soon afterward. Cop-killers were a big part of the number of death sentences. Crooks trying to shoot it out with the police are now more likely to be killed by cops than survive to face capital-murder charges. Better police work makes it less likely that violent offenders get away with extended crime sprees that might culminate in a robbery-murder.

Logged
Slander and/or Libel
Figs
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 2,338


Political Matrix
E: -6.32, S: -7.83

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2014, 10:37:56 AM »

Violent crime rates have gone down in part due to the disappearance of lead in the environment. Lead, an insidious poison, created behavioral pathologies and learning disabilities. Bullet-proof vests have made it less likely that a crook shoots a cop and gets away for a few hours only to get caught soon afterward. Cop-killers were a big part of the number of death sentences. Crooks trying to shoot it out with the police are now more likely to be killed by cops than survive to face capital-murder charges. Better police work makes it less likely that violent offenders get away with extended crime sprees that might culminate in a robbery-murder.


Logged
Tender Branson
Mark Warner 08
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 58,173
Austria


Political Matrix
E: -6.06, S: -4.84

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2014, 11:25:42 AM »

Violent crime rates have gone down in part due to the disappearance of lead in the environment. Lead, an insidious poison, created behavioral pathologies and learning disabilities. Bullet-proof vests have made it less likely that a crook shoots a cop and gets away for a few hours only to get caught soon afterward. Cop-killers were a big part of the number of death sentences. Crooks trying to shoot it out with the police are now more likely to be killed by cops than survive to face capital-murder charges. Better police work makes it less likely that violent offenders get away with extended crime sprees that might culminate in a robbery-murder.

Crime (and murder rates) is also going down because the US society is aging. Older people are less likely to be criminal or murderous than younger folks. The same with driving offenses.
Logged
pbrower2a
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 26,841
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2014, 03:29:40 PM »

Violent crime rates have gone down in part due to the disappearance of lead in the environment. Lead, an insidious poison, created behavioral pathologies and learning disabilities. Bullet-proof vests have made it less likely that a crook shoots a cop and gets away for a few hours only to get caught soon afterward. Cop-killers were a big part of the number of death sentences. Crooks trying to shoot it out with the police are now more likely to be killed by cops than survive to face capital-murder charges. Better police work makes it less likely that violent offenders get away with extended crime sprees that might culminate in a robbery-murder.

Crime (and murder rates) is also going down because the US society is aging. Older people are less likely to be criminal or murderous than younger folks. The same with driving offenses.

That too.

The age-based cohorts with the worst pathologies of below-average academic achievement, drug offenses, juvenile delinquency, and criminal incarceration were born from about 1959 to 1964. People in that age group are now 50 or older.

Logged
MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!
Kalwejt
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 57,380


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2014, 04:40:33 PM »

The prisoners on death row weren't taken off of it when NM, MD and CT abolished the death penalty? That sucks...

No, because the law was not made retroactively.

CT still has 12 on death row, MD 4 and NM 2.

Plus, Wyoming has the death penalty - but nobody is currently on death row.

IIRC, O'Malley did promise to review each case and he's still got time until January to clear the death row, if he chooses so. On the other hand, he seldom exercises his powers of clemency as compared to previous Governors (and, it seems, his successor, as Hogan said during the campaign, he "would take a greater interest in clemency requests"). 
Logged
Pages: [1]  
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.038 seconds with 11 queries.