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- JANUARY 1, 1999DelawareDEATH PENALTY
Delaware does not forbid the execution of the mentally...
Delaware does not forbid the execution of the mentally retarded or juvenile offenders but does have life without parole
- JANUARY 1, 1999DEATH PENALTY
Pope John Paul II had issued an appeal to Governor...
Pope John Paul II had issued an appeal to Governor Tom Carper to spare the life of condemned killer Willie Sullivan, but Delaware executed him by lethal injection on September 24 for the 1991 murder of his former employer, 78-year-old Maurice Dodd, a Fred
- JANUARY 1, 1999MississippiDEATH PENALTY
Mississippi has not had an execution since 1989, the...
Mississippi has not had an execution since 1989, the longest period of time without an execution for any state which has resumed executions
- JANUARY 1, 1999Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
David Ronald Chandler, a marijuana grower from Alabama,...
David Ronald Chandler, a marijuana grower from Alabama, was the first person to receive the federal death sentence after the penalty was reinstated in 1988
- JANUARY 1, 1999GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia has had no executions in 1999 and only one in 1998
Georgia has had no executions in 1999 and only one in 1998
- JANUARY 1, 1999DEATH PENALTY
Kansas did not reinstate the death penalty until 1994
Kansas did not reinstate the death penalty until 1994
- JANUARY 1, 1999IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Illinois is second only to Florida in the number of...
Illinois is second only to Florida in the number of inmates released from death row after new evidence of innocence emerged
- JANUARY 1, 1999DEATH PENALTY
Indiana forbids the execution of the mentally retarded...
Indiana forbids the execution of the mentally retarded but does not forbid the execution of juvenile offenders
- JANUARY 1, 1999IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
According to a poll by the Chicago Tribune, support...
According to a poll by the Chicago Tribune, support for the death penalty in Illinois has dropped 13 percentage points in the last five years, and a majority of voters (54%) favors a moratorium on all executions in the state
- JANUARY 1, 1999DEATH PENALTY
Illinois does not forbid the execution of the mentally...
Illinois does not forbid the execution of the mentally retarded but does forbid the execution of juvenile offenders
- JANUARY 1, 1999MinnesotaDEATH PENALTY
Minnesota abolished the death penalty in 1911
Minnesota abolished the death penalty in 1911
- JANUARY 1, 1999LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
The Loyola Death Penalty Resource Center, which had...
The Loyola Death Penalty Resource Center, which had defended many of those on Louisiana's death row and helped to free some who were innocent, was forced to close its doors in 1999 because of lack of funding