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A blog produced by the Oregon Justice Resource Center discussing the death penalty (capital punishment) in Oregon and in the Ninth Circuit.

Ohio executes Mark Wiles

Ohio executed Mark Wiles. He died by lethal injection at 10:42 a.m., ending an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty that occurred due to controversies surrounding Ohio’s lethal injection procedures. … Continue reading

April 18, 2012

25th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in McCleskey v. Kemp (Part III)

From the ACLU  A Shameful Race-Based System of “Justice” It took Florida authorities nearly six weeks to arrest George Zimmerman and charge him with second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin, a delay that … Continue reading

April 18, 2012

Current Research Not Sufficient to Assess Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty

From the National Academies: Date:  April 18, 2012  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Current Research Not Sufficient to Assess Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty WASHINGTON — Research to date on the … Continue reading

April 18, 2012

Number of People Executed in 2013

16 (as of 6/17/13)

Number of People Executed Since 1976

U.S.
1,336

Ninth Circuit States
71 (5.25%)

Number of People on Death Row in Ninth Circuit States (As of April, 2012)

Number of People on Death Row in Ninth Circuit States (As of October 1st, 2012)

Sourced total U.S. number from NAACP LDF, October 1, 2012.

994 (31.6% of U.S. death row population: 3,148)

Race of Defendant:
White: 426 (42.8%)
Black: 317 (31.9%)
Latino: 200 (20.1%)
Native American: 4 (0.4%)
Asian: 26 (2.6%)
Unknown: 21 (2.1%)

Gender:
Male: 970 (97.6%)
Female: 24 (2.4%)

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