death penalty laws, notable court challenges and current statistics.
   The death penalty was commonly used in Europe and the early days of the
   considerable variation in death penalty laws from colony to colony.
   abolition of the death penalty in Austria and Tuscany. While there was
   death penalty crimes were replaced with discretionary death penalty
   The popularity of the death penalty began to decline in the 1950's as
   death penalty statute providing the jury full discretion in sentencing
   penalty statutes and suspended the death penalty since the statutes
   death penalty laws. These laws avoided the arbitrariness complained of
   in Furman by mandating capital punishment for those convicted of
   reinstatement of the death penalty under the new sentencing guidelines
   and also finding the death penalty itself constitutional under the
   History of Death Penalty Laws
   How death penalty laws have changed over the course of history, from
   Brief history of capital punishment in the U.S., from its rise in
   Death Penalty Challenges
   Overview of Illinois' 2003 death penalty moratorium, a 2005 case that
   Recent Death Penalty Statistics
   Statistics pertaining to executions since the death penalty was
   Federal Capital Punishment Laws
   Explanation of the federal government's death penalty laws, procedures
   Death Penalty Articles
     * Capital Punishment at the Federal Level
     * Death Penalty Challenges
     * History of Death Penalty Laws
     * Recent Death Penalty Statistics