Death Penalty Roundup
talkleft.com 2/9/2009 — In state death penalty news: • New Mexico's House Judiciary Committee voted 8-to-5 Friday to recommend passage of a bill that would repeal the state's death penalty. Similar House bills met their deaths in the Senate Judiciary Committee in ...

Who Still Uses The Death Penalty?
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 5/16/2009 — A map by Good . (Hat tip: Flowing Data )

America Must Keep The Death Penalty
westernfrontamerica.com 4/3/2009 — Whether we choose to believe it, or not, pure raw evil stalks the earth. It really doesn’t matter whether you believe there is such a thing as evil, it still exists, and it wreaks havoc in a civilized society....

Murphy Against Death Penalty for Terrorists (video)
youtube.com 3/20/2009 — When asked: "So you're against the death penalty for terrorists?" Scott Murphy: "Yes."

The new case against the death penalty
csmonitor.com 5/12/2009 — The bittersweet reality is that money, rather than morality, has become the tipping point for abolishing it.

Citing Cost, States Consider End to Death Penalty
nytimes.com 2/25/2009 — Ending capital punishment is part of a trend in which states are trying to cut the costs of fighting crime. >

If You're Not Already Against the Death Penalty...
shakespearessister.blogspot.com 9/2/2009 — ... this oughtta do it . In 2000, after thirteen people on death row in Illinois were exonerated, George Ryan, who was then governor of the state, suspended the death penalty. Though he had been a longtime advocate of capital punishment, he declared ...

New Mexico Bans Death Penalty
time.com 3/18/2009 — Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation Wednesday repealing New Mexico's death penalty, making it the second state to ban executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976

The High Cost of the Death Penalty
talkleft.com 9/29/2009 — The New York Times has an editorial today on the economic toll of the death penalty . Some stats it obtained from the Death Penalty Information Center : According to the organization, keeping inmates on death row in Florida costs taxpayers $51 ...

States weigh cost of death penalty - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 3/15/2009 — Debate over the death penalty has undergone shifts over the years. During the last decade, the discussion has focused on accuracy and fairness, with exonerations of dozens of death row inmates sparking calls for reform and abolition. Now, with the ...