An Excecution-Free Month. Prof. Doug Berman, of the Sentencing Law & Policy Blog,  is reporting that this will be the first month without executions since July 1994:

I have previously noted declines in the number of death sentences and in the number of executions as statistical evidence suggesting the death penalty is on the decline in the United States.  But yesterday while talking to a reporter I discovered an even more remarkable capital development, which perhaps marks the start of a new modern death penalty era:

Due to the fact, noted here, that the last six executions scheduled for 2004 were all stayed, this December will be the first month without an execution in the United States since July 1994.

Read the complete post here.