Sentences with phrase «number of death sentences»

The number of death sentences imposed during 2009 was 106, down from 111 the year before, 284 a decade ago, and a high of 328 in 1994, according to a year - end report published today by the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that opposes the death penalty.

«The annual number of death sentences in the U.S. has dropped for seven straight years and is 60 percent less than in the 1990s,» said Richard Dieter, DPIC executive director.

Eventually, along the legalisation process, Iran's high number of death sentences, which is a principle side - effect of the country's war on drugs, would be almost nullified.

Not exact matches

Officially, China's Supreme People's Court claims the number of executions has dropped by half since the court resumed reviewing death sentences in 2006.

In Pakistan, multiple humanists have been sentenced to death for blasphemy, and a number of bloggers were «forcibly disappeared» by the state.

The number of people executed in the United States this year dropped to the lowest level since 1991, as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases get access to better legal help.

The number of false convictions among the death - sentenced has been particularly hard to estimate, Gross says, because many prisoners who are on death row are eventually moved off of it but remain in prison, which often reduces their chances of exoneration.

That number — 4.1 % to be exact — comes from a new analysis of more than 3 decades of data on death sentences and death row exonerations across the United States.

Instead, human bias seems to have led a small number of counties to become far more likely than others to follow through on a death sentence.

The pair are joined by a number of big stars, including John Malkovich as the judge who sentenced Bundy to death, Haley Joel Osment as a character known as Jerry (who seeks the affection of Collins» character as Bundy's legal woes mount), Terry Kinney as a detective on the case, and Jim Parsons as the lead prosector.

When the agreement was read out, a number of the African politicians just got up and left, because it was an ecological death sentence for their respective countries.

A couple of months ago, a large number of animal welfare advocates from around the country became aware, and upset, that three dogs named Dusty, Reilly and Monroe, were sentenced to death.

Pet shelters attempt to find homes for the animals they deem suitable as human companions, but a far greater number of animals taken to pet shelters end up with the death sentence than with a loving home.

That means outfitting an entire crowd of soldiers with automatic weapons that certainly weren't available in such numbers, depicting a zeppelin flying low enough to engage ground troops when that would have been a death sentence, and wearing full - body metal plate armor that would have made running and jumping an absolute nightmare.

The number of executions and new death sentences have been trending downward for years.

Nine men who had been sentenced to death were exonerated and freed in 2009, the second highest number of exonerations since 1976.

Even with fewer being sentenced to death, the number of people still on death row is 3,279.