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Is the death penalty dying? Sentences, executions remain low
The number of executions in 2023 rose to 24 from 18 a year earlier. Texas (8) and Florida (6) made up 60% of the total.
The number of states imposing or performing executions in 2023 was at a 20-year low, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a group that complies such statistics.
Polling indicates that public skepticism of the fairness and propriety of the death penalty continues to increase. And increasingly, bipartisan coalitions in legislatures are pushing to abolish it in states that haven’t already, the year-end report said.
The U.S. Supreme Court is one institution, however, that seems to be out of step with the growing march against state-sponsored killing.
He’s on Louisiana’s death row, his attorneys say, for a crime that didn’t happen
A Netflix documentary calls into question the methods of forensic examiners in the case
BY: GREG LAROSE
“Definitely, the system in Louisiana is broken.”
That’s the frank assessment of Matilda Carbia with the Mwalimu Center for Justice, one of the organizations representing Jimmie “Chris” Duncan. He’s among more than 50 people incarcerated on death row for whom Gov. John Bel Edwards has used his clemency power to push for state parole board reviews in order to switch their execution sentences to life in prison.
Critics of the death penalty point out 11 people facing the electric chair or lethal injection have been exonerated or had their convictions reversed in Louisiana since it reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Over that same period, 28 people have been executed.