The Death Penalty Information Center recently released Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis. According to the executive summary, Smart on Crime “explores the prospect of saving states hundreds of millions of dollars by ending the death penalty. The report also serves to release a national poll of police chiefs in which they rank the death penalty at the bottom of their priorities for achieving a safer society.”
Archive for October, 2009
A recent article in the New York Times discusses the 9th Circuit’s grant of an evidentiary hearing in Ms. Milke’s case. The Circuit court ordered the District Court to hold an evidentiary hearing on the question of whether Ms. Milke waived her Miranda rights.