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WASHINGTON 鈥?Only 30 people were sentenced to death in the United States this year, the lowest number since the early 1970s and a further sign of the steady decline in use of the death penalty.The number is a sharp drop from the 49 death sentences stanley cup last year and just a fraction of the peak of 315 in 1996, according to a report from the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that opposes capital punishment and tracks the issue.I think we are watching a major political climate change concerning capital punishment and it stanley cup reflected among reduced death sentences across the country, said Robert Dunham, the group executive director.The growing reluctance of juries to sentence defendants to death is one of several factors contributing to the overall drop in executions. Twenty people were executed this year, the fewest since 1991, when 14 people were put to death. The high-water mark was in 1999, when there were 98 executions.Other factors leading to a drop in executions include shortages of the drugs needed to carry out lethal injection and more robust legal challenges by defendants in capital cases.About half of Americans still support the death penalty according to a Pew Research Center poll earlier this year, but that is the lowest level in more than four decades. Public support for capital punishment peaked in the mid-1990s, when 80 percent of Americans favored it.Yet the issue still causes deep divisions. Voters i stanley cup n California and Bewk How close is North Korea to launching a nuclear missile
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in federal prison and two years of supervised release in a so-called hush money case in which he made payments to a student he allegedly sexually abused.The former student of Yorkville High School in Illinois identified himself Wednesday as Scott Cross, now a married father of two and a businessman. He called his abuse by Hastert, who was his wrestling coach, as his darkest secret as [Hastert] became more powerful. Cross said Hastert offered him mass yeezy ages to help him lose weight and described one incident when he was 17 in which Hastert grabbed my penis and began to rub me. Stunned, I pulled up my shorts and ran out of the locker room. Hastert told the judge, I am deeply ashamed to be standing here today. 鈥?I want to apologize to the boys I mistreated. I w jordan as wrong and I accept that. U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin referred to Hastert as a serial chil stanley cup d molester while delivering the sentence.The judge also required Hastert to follow a sex offender treatment program. Left: File photo of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaving federal court by Jim Young/Reuters Go Deeper dennis hastert By 鈥? |
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