Draggingtree Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 The Atlantic. In Texas, the Death Penalty is Slowly Dying Out The Lone Star State carried out its fewest executions since 1996 this year. MATT FORD OCT 29 2014, 12:49 AM ETOn Tuesday night, the state of Texas executed Miguel Paredes by lethal injection for murdering three members of a rival gang* sixteen years ago. With no executions scheduled by the state department of criminal justice for November or December, Paredes' death marks the tenth and final execution for Texas this year—the fewest in almost two decades. 2014 wasn't anomalous either. Executions in Texas, the most prolific death-penalty state in the country, spiked after Congress restricted federal appeals in death-penalty cases with the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in 1996. Since then, however, the death penalty has been in overall decline both in Texas and nationwide. Thirty people have been executed so far this year in the entire United States, whereas Texas alone executed 40 people at its peak in 2000. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/texas-death-penalty-executions/382057/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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