Sections Tables updated
Marijuana eradications
and seizures;
Arrests for drug
violations
2013 Counterterrorism Calendar
Few in U.S. See Guns, Immigration as Nation's Top Problems
Ending Mass Incarceration: Charting a New Justice Reinvestment
Workplace Violence Against Government Employees, 1994-2011
Bombings End Decade of Strikingly Few Successful Terrorism Attacks in U.S.
Gun debate won’t end until there is respect on both sides
Supreme Court rules against police in drunk driving case
Homosexuality, legality of
Immigration policies
Gun control laws
From 1930 through 2012, a total of 5,179 executions were carried out in the United States.
43 executions were carried out in the U.S. during 2012, continuing a downward trend that began in a decade ago.
In 1985 almost two-thirds of Americans(62%) believed that the death penalty was a deterrent to murder; in 2011 survey less than a third of the public (32%) continued to hold that belief.
Background checks • Crime rates • Deportations • Executions
Jail inmates • Murder weapons • Prisoners • Public corruption
U.S. correctional population
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