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Report Details General Decline In Death Penalty Statistics For 2003
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2005
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2005, page 31
For most of the nation, 2003 was a year of declining death penalty statistics. That year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report, the number of death sentences imposed fell to a 30-year low, while the number of completed executions also declined slightly.
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Crime/Demographics,
Statistics/Trends,
Death Penalty.
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United States of America.
During 2003, 144 prisoners were ...
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