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UNITED STATES. US REPORTS DECLINE IN EXECUTIONS

November 13, 2005: the number of people sentenced to death in the United States and the number executed fell again in 2004, according to the latest government figures. Twelve states executed 59 people last year, while 125 people convicted of murder received a death sentence.
The number of new prisoners on death row has fallen for the last four years.
This was the result of a US murder rate that is at its lowest for 40 years, said Tracy Snell, co-author of the Bureau of Justice Statistics report.
One death penalty advocate said the threat of harsh punishment was responsible for that falling rate.
"There are less murders, less murder victims and less death sentences because, in our view, we have been giving this problem the right medicine," Michael Rushford, president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, told the Associated Press.
The Death Penalty Information Center - which opposes the death penalty - said jurors were increasingly reluctant to recommend the death penalty.
Richard Dieter, head of the DPIC, cited the effects of recent cases where death row prisoners have been freed following media or legal investigations or the use of DNA evidence to exonerate those wrongly convicted.
The increased availability of life-without-parole sentences as an alternative to capital punishment also had an impact on the figures, he said.
California, Florida and Texas together account for 44% of the nation's death row population, according to the report.
As of 31 December 2004, there were 3,315 people on death row, compared to 3,378 a year earlier.
The 59 inmates executed in 2004 had spent an average of 11 years on death row and of those executed, 36 were white, 19 black, three Hispanic, and one was Asian.
One inmate was electrocuted, the rest were put to death by lethal injection. (Sources: BBC NEWS, 14/11/2005)

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SUDAN. TWO TROOPS TO HANG FOR DARFUR MURDER
UNITED NATIONS. UN OFFICIAL URGES SINGAPORE NOT TO EXECUTE AUSTRALIAN
MASSACHUSETTS, USA. LAWMAKERS REJECT BILL TO RESTORE DEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR RUNNING PORN RING
SOMALIA. SOMALILAND SENTENCES 8 TO DEATH FOR AID KILLINGS
IRAN. WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
IRAN. TWO YOUNG HOMOSEXUALS HANGED
ITALY. HANDS OFF CAIN RECEIVES PEACE PRIZE ‘LOVE AND PSYCHE’
NORTH CAROLINA, USA. MCHONE EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF HIS PARENTS
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
IRAN. CONVICTED MURDERER HANGED IN IRAN
NIGERIA. ISLAMIC COURT SENTENCES TWO TO HANG FOR MURDER, SEXUAL ABUSE
TEXAS, USA. CHARLES THACKER EXECUTED FOR 1993 MURDER OF TEACHER
CHINA. MAN SUES AFTER TORTURE, FALSE IMPRISONMENT
USA. NO DEATH PENALTY IN NEW GUANTANAMO CASES
USA. CANADA WANTS ASSURANCES THAT GUANTANAMO TEENAGER WON'T BE EXECUTED
VIRGINIA, USA. NEWLY ELECTED GOVERNOR AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
IRAN. YOUNG MAN PUBLICLY HANGED IN NORTH OF COUNTRY
SWAZILAND. BILL PROPOSES DEATH PENALTY FOR HIV+ RAPISTS
THAILAND. ITALIAN RISKS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
SINGAPORE. ACTIVISTS URGE GOVERNMENT TO SPARE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ON DEATH ROW
IRAN. TWO PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ‘ILLEGAL SEXUAL RELATIONS’
SOUTH CAROLINA, USA. HASTINGS WISE PUT TO DEATH
DELAWARE, USA. BRIAN STECKEL PUT TO DEATH
PUERTO RICO. COURT BARS EXTRADITION OF MAN FACING DEATH PENALTY TO PENNSYLVANIA
TEXAS. CONFESSED KILLER OF 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL EXECUTED
LEBANON. THE DEATH PENALTY A DISGRACE TO OUR COUNTRY, EX PREMIER HOSS
LIBYA. LIBYA DENIES LEGAL DEAL OVER BULGARIAN NURSES
IRAN. HANDS OFF CAIN JOINS EMBASSY DEMONSTRATION AND DENOUNCES FAILURE OF EUROPEAN POLICY

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