America Continues to Execute Fewer

Professor Doug Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy makes this poignant observation:

...before tonight there had not been a single execution in the United States in over a month.

...Barring an unlikely rush of Fall executions, it appears that this year there will be the fewest total number of executions in the United States since 1994.

Hopefully this trickle of executions rather than the flood that many anticipated will create the appropriate environment for the crucial and fundamental questions to be asked about the death penalty around the country.