"'In the past three decades, Pennsylvania has executed three men. Each abandoned appeals and essentially asked to die. The most recent execution occurred in 1999."
tragic for the victims and their families..
it looks like "LIFE" rules in your state.
Death Penalty in Pennsylvania - Statistics & History of Capital Punishment in PA
Pennsylvania's Death Penalty Statute
In 1972, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court ruled in Commonwealth v. Bradley that the death penalty was unconstitutional, using as precedence the earlier U.S. Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia. At the time, there were about two dozen death cases in the Pennsylvania prison system. All were removed from death row and sentenced to life. In 1974, the law was resurrected for a time, before the PA Supreme Court again declared the law to be unconstitutional in a December 1977 decision. The state legislature quickly drafted a new version, which went into effect in September 1978, over the veto of Governor Shapp. This death penalty law, which remains in effect today,
http://pittsburgh.about.com/cs/pennsylvani...ath_penalty.htmOur state of FLOR-I-DUH had a total of 64 executions since the death penalty was resuscitated in 1976(excuse the pun).
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/deathrow/
