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10 Crim. Just. Pol'y Rev. 3 (1999)

handle is hein.journals/cjpr10 and id is 1 raw text is: CJPR, Vol. 10 No. 1/99, pp. 3-5 @IUP Editorial Introduction: Charles S. Lanier School of Criminal Justice University at Albany As 1998 drew to a close, the state of South Carolina executed Andy Smith (December 18) by lethal injection - the number one choice of exe- cutioners in the United States today (United States Department of Justice, 1998) - thus making him the 500th person since 1977 to be executed in this country.' On February 3, 1998, the state of Texas pried open the door to executing 'vomen when it introduced a lethal dose of drugs into the veins of Karla Faye Tucker - the second woman in America to be exe- cuted in the post-Furman era.' The past year also saw the first National Conference on Wrongful Convictions and the Death Penalty - a meeting that featured 30 of the 75 persons exonerated and released from death row since 1972.' Present and former state and federal judges, justices, attor- ney generals, and prosecutors were among the new voices of opposition to the death penalty, which further distinguished 1998 as a year to remember in the national discourse on capital punishment (Death Penalty Information Center, 1998). Thus, it seems not only timely but appropriate that this special issue of Criminal Justice Policy Review is devoted to capital punishment. The idea for a special issue on the death penalty originated with CJPR Editor Nanci Koser Wilson. After hearing several of the presentations given dur- ing the session on capital punishment at the 1998 Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences (NEACJS) annual meeting (held at the Roger Williams School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island), Nanci inquired whether I would be interested in being a guest editor for a special issue of the CJPR. After a brief discussion among participants, this special issue on the death penalty began to take shape. For the most part, the articles that follow are works that were prepared for the 1998 NEACJS annual meeting. The collection begins with my overview of the status of capital punishment in the Northeastern United States, including what states authorize the death penalty, the number, race, and ethnicity of prisoners convicted and sentenced to die, and the

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