Policy and News


Current Laws

For a list of individual state policies on the death penalty, visit the Death Penalty Information Center's State by State Database.
1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act

The Act containes a provision that institutes the death penalty for any person who kills someone while committing a drug felony.

Click here for a summary from the Library of Congress.


H.R. 3355: Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

Title VI in the Act amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the death penalty for multiple offenses.

Click here for a summary from the Library of Congress.


View a list from the Death Penalty Information Center that contains each section of the federal code that provides for the death penalty.




In the News

Dallas Morning News - 10/12/09

Miami Herald - 5/21/09


New York Times - 3/26/09


New York Times - 2/24/09


Baltimore Sun - 1/16/09

 

The New York Times - 12/09/08

 

Catholic News Service - 12/02/08

 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 10/12/08

 

New York Times - 8/21/08

 

Washington Post - 8/20/08

 

KOMU - 7/22/08


Missourian - 7/21/08

 

Washington Post - 6/11/07