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The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to the death penalty. Founded in 1990, DPI is primarily focused on the application of capital punishment in the United States .
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Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
A second bid from Thomas Creech, Idaho’s longest-serving death row prisoner, was rejected as he sought a new sentence of life in prison. ... D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Two of ...
Juveniles: Death Penalty Worldwide Archived 2014-03-09 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Death Penalty Information Center – The Juvenile Death Penalty Prior to Roper v. Simmons; Capital Punishment
Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v. Arizona , 481 U.S. 137 (1987) – Death penalty may be imposed on a felony-murder defendant who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibits ...
Race White 3 100% Age 20–29 0 0% 30–39 1 33% 40–49 0 0% 50–59 2 67% Sex Male 3 100% Date of execution 1976–1979 0 0% 1980–1989 0 0%
The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim.Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a ...