DP9

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

Scholarship Sunday 3/17

Scholarship Sunday 3/17

Yale Law Journal: Fifty Years of Defiance and Resistance After Gideon v. Wainwright, by Stephen Bright and Sia M. Sanneh  http://bit.ly/YgLRv4 Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court began to chart … Continue reading →

March 17, 2013
Sylvester Schieber, Vicki Schieber, Kirk Bloodsworth, Ben Jealous

Last Week in Capital Punishment 3/11 – 3/17

National  Maryland becomes the 18th state to ban death penalty and is 6th state in 6 years to abolish the death penalty!!! House votes to repeal death penalty (3/16) Md. Assembly … Continue reading →

March 17, 2013
Last Week In Capital Punishment 3/4 – 3/10

Last Week In Capital Punishment 3/4 – 3/10

National News: Maryland Senate PASSES Repeal! (3/6) Ohio executes Frederick Treesh (3/6) Kirk Bloodsworth on the Colbert Report (3/5) News from the 9th Circuit Not taking freedom for granted (3/8) Washington update 3/8 (Supreme Court … Continue reading →

March 10, 2013
Scholarship Sunday 3/10

Scholarship Sunday 3/10

The Impact of Implicit Racial Bias on the Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 795, 2012 Robert J. Smith University of North Carolina School of Law; … Continue reading →

March 10, 2013

Navigation

Older posts

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%)

Twitter

Disclaimer

The information you obtain at this site is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice. You should consult an attorney for individual advice regarding your own situation. Please do not send any confidential information to the Oregon Justice Resource Center until you have received written acceptance from the Oregon Justice Resource Center of any legal services of any legal services you may request. Please do not reveal, discuss, or post any information about your case or legal problems in the comments section or any where else on this blog. Any communication with the Oregon Justice Resource Center through this blog does not create an attorney client relationship and your communications are not protected.

The owners of this blog reserve the right to delete any comment or post at any time for any reason. This blog is maintained by the Oregon Justice Resource Center and unless it is explicitly stated otherwise, this blog expresses only the views and opinions of the Oregon Justice Resource Center.

For more information visit our website: http://ojrc.org/

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Suburbia by WPSHOWER.