George Hale
Appearances
Farm4Profit Podcast
Building Resilience in Farming and Life - A Journey Through Tough Challenges
The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than in any other period in decades. Two mass clemency decisions in 2024, including former President Biden's decision to commute most federal death sentences to life in prison, contributed.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Building Resilience in Farming and Life - A Journey Through Tough Challenges
But Project Director Robert Dunham says many more prisoners are coming off death rows after courts overturned their death sentences.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Building Resilience in Farming and Life - A Journey Through Tough Challenges
As a result, Dunham says, new death sentences are no longer replenishing death row populations, even as executions, too, are happening less often. The few places where the decline isn't quite as stark include Florida and Alabama, which allow non-unanimous juries to impose death sentences. For NPR News, I'm George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana.