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Death penalty

Capital Punishment, 1995


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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1996           202/633-3047
                                                  
  SIXTEEN STATES EXECUTED 56 OFFENDERS LAST YEAR

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sixteen states executed a
total of 56 men last year, the Justice
Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
announced today.  It was the largest number of
prisoners put to death in one year since the
United States Supreme...