"The Death Penalty in 2011: Year End Report" - Death Penalty Information Center's Year End Report. Featured highlights from 2011: Illinois Abolition, Oregon Moratorium, Troy Davis Execution growing concerns about death penalty; Executions Decline, Death Sentences Fall Well Below 100

 

"Minority Practice, Majority's Burden: The Death Penalty Today" - A report by Professor James S. Liebman and Peter Clarke from Columbia University Law School analyzes the declining use of the death penalty and concludes that, although it is abstractly supported by two-thirds of the public, the death penalty is actually practiced by only a distinct minority of jurisdictions in the United States.

Posted: September 1st, 2011