The latest Death Row USA show reduced death sentences

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund's has released its latest quarterly update of Death Row USA, which can be accessed here.  As noted by the DPIC here, this latest report "indicates that the number of people sentenced to death last year was 65% fewer than in 1998. The ... report showed that 106 people received a death sentence in 2005, down from 125 in 2004 and dramatically lower than the 300 per year recorded in the late 1990s."  The DPIC also notes here that the report "shows an 8% decline in the country's death row population during the past 5 years, down from 3,652 in 2000 to 3,373 at the end of 2005."

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