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

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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

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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.

[pbrower2a]

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.