Death Penalty Trends From DPIC
I found this information on Death Penalty Information Center's website about state's use of the death penalty very interesting. I've included a blurb below but I highly recommend checking out DPICs website for more details.
Most U.S. states either do not have a death penalty at all or almost never use it. Twenty-nine states have carried out three or fewer executions in the past 30 years or have a moratorium on executions. Almost all of these states carried out no more than one execution in 30 years. Only 9 states have averaged at least one execution per year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and only 4 of those states (Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma, and Missouri) have averaged two or more executions per year during that time.
Posted by beth at 11:05 AM
