Archive for October, 2009

New DPIC Report on Cost of Death Penalty

Posted by emily on October 20, 2009
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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.”

Read the report here.  CNN’s coverage of the report can be found here.

Debra Milke in the NY Times

Posted by emily on October 20, 2009
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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.

Read the article here.