George Hale

The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than in any other period in decades. Two mass clemency decisions in 2024, including former President Biden's decision to commute most federal death sentences to life in prison, contributed.

But Project Director Robert Dunham says many more prisoners are coming off death rows after courts overturned their death sentences.

As a result, Dunham says, new death sentences are no longer replenishing death row populations, even as executions, too, are happening less often. The few places where the decline isn't quite as stark include Florida and Alabama, which allow non-unanimous juries to impose death sentences. For NPR News, I'm George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana.

He says flying debris killed one horse and injured at least one more. Yeah, it happened right during the storm event. Three campers also sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The campground and horse trails are closed until further notice. For NPR News, I'm George Hale in Nashville, Indiana. Tens of thousands gathered in St.

Brown County State Park is particularly popular with equestrians and operates a camping area equipped to accommodate horses. The campsite was nearly at capacity Friday evening when a tornado ripped through it. Department of Natural Resources Regional Manager Carl Lindell drove past the splintered remains of hitching rails and overturned horse trailers Saturday afternoon.