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Report: Fewer executions in 2004
Posted on Tuesday 14 December @ 16:11:18
NewsUse of the death penalty by states continued a five-year decline in 2004, according to an annual report by a nonprofit group that opposes capital punishment.

According to statistics to be released Tuesday by the Death Penalty Information Center, 40 percent fewer executions were carried out this year than in 1999.

The center also found that fewer Americans support capital punishment and that fewer prisoners are being sent to death rows.

In its annual survey, the center found that 59 people had been executed this year as of mid-December, and The Associated Press reported that no more executions were scheduled. In 1999, 98 people were put to death.

The vast majority of executions this year, 85 percent, occurred in the South, up 10 percentage points from 1999. Twelve percent were in the Midwest, and just 3 percent in Western states.

No one from the Northeast has been executed in the past two years, but Connecticut is scheduled to put a convicted murderer to death next month.

Michael Ross has refused to pursue further appeals, and his execution would be the first in the state since 1960. He has admitted to killing eight women in Connecticut and New York in the 1980s.

A federal Justice Department survey of the death penalty released last month showed similar statistics, including a 30-year low in the number of defendants given death sentences. (Full story).

The center also released a Gallup poll that showed half of Americans surveyed preferred the death penalty to life in prison without parole for convicted killers and 46 percent supported life without parole.

A survey five years ago showed 56 percent supported execution.

Questions have been raised about the death penalty in high levels of at least three state governments this year.

New York's highest court found its capital punishment law to be unconstitutional.

Leaders in New Jersey and California have called for a moratorium on executions amid questions about the methods and legal procedures surrounding the issue.

In January 2003, outgoing Illinois Gov. George Ryan granted clemency to all 167 inmates then on his state's death row.

Last year, a dozen people were freed from death rows, more than any other year since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the AP. This year, five people have been released, the AP reported.

"The events of the past year and the statistical evidence all point in one direction," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

"The public's confidence in the death penalty has seriously eroded over the past several years. Because of so many failures, the death penalty is rightly on the defensive. Life-without-parole offers the public a better alternative without all the risks and expense."

Since 1976, 944 people have been put to death. Texas has had the most executions, at 336, more than a third of the nation's total.

Thirty-eight states and the federal government allow capital punishment, but six of those states have not executed anyone since 1976.

From Bill Mears
CNN Washington Bureau
Monday, December 13, 2004
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Huntsville - Corner of 12th Street and Avenue I (in front of the Walls Unit) at 5:00 p.m.

Austin - At the Texas Capitol on the sidewalk on 11th Street facing Congress Avenue from 5:30 to 6:30 PM.

Beaumont - Diocese of Beaumont, Diocesan Pastoral Office, 703 Archie St. @ 4:00 p.m. on the day of an execution.

College Station - 6 to 7 PM on execution days, corner of Texas Avenue and University Drive.

Corpus Christi - at 6 PM in front of Incarnate Word Convent at 2910 Alameda Street

Dallas - 6 pm, SMU Catholic Center, 3057 University Blvd (University Blvd. and Airline Rd)

Houston - To learn location or if a stay has been granted before you come out, call Burnham Terrell, 713/921-0948.

Lewisville - St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, 1897 W. Main Street. Peace & Justice Ministry conducts Vigils of Witness Against Capital Punishment at 6:00 pm on the day executions are scheduled in Texas.

McKinney - St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Community located at 110 St. Gabriel Way. We gather the last Sunday of the month, following the 11:00 Mass to pray for those men/women scheduled to be executed in the next month and to remember the victims, their families, and all lives touched, including us as a society.

San Antonio (Site 1) - Archdiocese of San Antonio, in the St. Joseph Chapel at the Chancery, 2718 W. Woodlawn Ave. (1 mile east of Bandera Rd.) at 11:30 a.m. on the day of execution. Broadcast on Catholic Television of San Antonio (Time-Warner cable channel 15) at 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on the day of execution.

San Antonio (Site 2) - Main Plaza across from Bexar County Courthouse and San Fernando Cathedral - Noon

Spring - Prayer Vigil at 6 PM on evenings of executions at St Edward Catholic Community, 2601 Spring Stuebner Rd for the murder victim, for family and friends of the murder victim, the prison guards and correctional officers, for the family of the condemn man/woman, for the man/woman to be executed and to an end to the death penalty.

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