Texas set fewer execution dates in 2022 than any year since 1996, report finds | Houston Public Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : We also have seen improvements in the quality of legal counsel for defendants facing the death penalty."
43% : "The legacy of that zealous use of the death penalty in Harris County lives on today and is represented by the people who remain on death row.
41% : Cuellar said there are several reasons for the declining use of the death penalty in Texas.
40% : The latest annual report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty finds Texas set fewer execution dates in 2022 than it has in nearly three decades.
40% : Nearly 300 people have been sentenced to death from Harris County since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1974, after finding it unconstitutional two years previously.
36% : "We also have seen prosecutors dropping the death penalty in case after case this year, and they give a variety of reasons for that including the cost and the length of time death penalty trials require.

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