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DPIC'S YEAR END REPORT: DEATH SENTENCES PLUNGE TO HISTORIC LOWS

December 15, 2011: the Death Penalty Information Center released its latest report, “The Death Penalty in 2011: Year End Report,” on statistics and trends in capital punishment in the past year. 
The report noted that new death sentences dropped in United States to 78 in 2011, marking the first time since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 that the country has produced less than 100 death sentences in a year.  It represents a 75% decline since 1996, when there were 315 new death sentences.  
California, which has the country's largest death row, saw its death sentences drop by more than half this year - 10 compared with 29 in 2010.  Only 13 states carried out executions in 2011, 74% of which were in the South.  Only 8 states carried out more than one execution.  
Texas led the country with 13 executions, but that number represents a 46% decrease from 2009, when there were 24 executions.  
“This year, the use of the death penalty continued to decline by almost every measure," said Richard Dieter, DPIC’s Executive Director and the report’s author.  "Executions, death sentences, public support, the number of states with the death penalty all dropped from previous years.  Whether it’s concerns about unfairness, executing the innocent, the high costs of the death penalty, or the general feeling that the government just can’t get it right, Americans moved further away from capital punishment in 2011.” (Sources: DPIC, 15/12/2011)

VIETNAM: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRADING HEROIN
JAPAN: MANY DEATH ROW INMATES ON MEDS
IRAN: TWO YOUNG MEN HANGED PUBLICLY IN QAZVIN
INDONESIA: 87 PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW
CHINA: 12 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN SINGLE DAY
JAPAN: NO EXECUTIONS IN 2011 FOR 1ST TIME IN 19 YRS
CHINA: TWO INVOLVED IN DRUG-RELATED CRIMES SENTENCED TO DEATH
ZAMBIA: 279 INMATES ON DEATH ROW
SAUDI ARABIA: THREE MIGRANT WORKERS ON DEATH ROW RELEASED
IRAN: FIVE PRISONERS HANGED IN SEMNAN PROVINCE
IRAN: NINE PRISONERS (AMONG THEM ONE WOMAN) EXECUTED
INDIA: BILL PROVIDING FOR DEATH SENTENCE FOR SABOTAGE OF PIPELINES PASSED
SAUDI ARABIA: 2 EXECUTED FOR KILLING FILIPINO TRUCK DRIVER
EU IMPOSES STRICT CONTROLS ON 'EXECUTION DRUG' EXPORTS
SYRIA: NEW LAW STIPULATES DEATH FOR 'TERRORISTS'
IRAN: PRISONER HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
IRAN: ONE MAN HANGED IN ILAM
JAPAN: BAR FEDERATION TO ESTABLISH PANEL FOR ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED IN ARAK
IRAN: ‘KILLING SPREE’ OF DRUG EXECUTIONS
MALI: PRESIDENT TOURÈ PARDONS TUNISIAN NATIONAL
SWAZILAND ADVISED TO REPEAL DEATH SENTENCE
IRAN: THREE MEN HANGED
NORTH CAROLINA (USA): PERDUE VETOES REPEAL OF RACIAL JUSTICE ACT
ZAMBIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
CHINA HALVES EXECUTIONS TO 4,000 PER YEAR, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
MALAYSIA: LABOURER SENT TO THE GALLOWS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
CHINA: MAFIA-STYLE GANG LEADER EXECUTED
IRAN: HEROIN TRAFFICKER EXECUTED
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