Number of Death Sentences Hits 30-Year Low
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The number of people sentenced to death reached a 30-year low in 2003, when the death row population fell for the third year in a row, the government reported Sunday.
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Nearly 200 inmates serving time for murder, rape and kidnapping will be eligible for immediate release following a ruling by the Delaware Supreme Court that some life sentences should be considered 45-year terms.
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Christopher Pittman, who was 12 at the time he shot his grandparents, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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A 17-year-old is jailed for 30 years for the murders of a woman at a christening and a pastor's daughter.
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More than 940 people have been executed since the United States reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Not one was in New England.
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China should reduce the number of death sentences it carries out, but the world's leading executioner of prisoners cannot afford to do away with capital punishment altogether, the country's top legal bodies said.
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A record 7 million people -- one in every 32 U.S. adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year,  a Justice Department report released yesterday shows.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells.
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China sees a 10% drop in death sentences since new legislation was brought in, state media says.
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Fewer prison inmates were moved to death row in 2005, according to a federal study that shows one more person was executed than in the year before.
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IONE, California  - Convicted murderer Greg Rollo knows the brutality of life behind bars after 31 years in a prison. But he says life has grown much worse since he was moved to a triple-bunk bed in an open gym with 199 others.
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The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails or on probation or parole reached a record 7 million at the end of last year, accounting for about 3 percent of the nation's adult population, the Justice Department reported on Thursday.
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Tooth decay among children is at its lowest recorded level since 1983, figures show.
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Thousands of criminals are filing for reduced sentences. Backlogged courts are asking lawyers to slow down their appeals. Judges say they're confused about what to do.
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Britain's suicide rate for young men has plunged to its lowest level in two decades and is nearly 30 percent below its peak in 1998, the government announced on Friday.
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China has executed fewer people since the country's highest court was given authority to review death sentences at the start of this year, state media reported on Friday.
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Sri Lanka said on Saturday it was reactivating its dormant death penalty for murder, rape and drug trafficking after a near 30-year lull following the murder of a top high court judge in the capital.