The number of death sentences and executions continued to decline in 2014, with a small handful of states bucking the decades-long trend.
The Death Penalty Information Center released its year-end summary Thursday of death penalty-related activity. The center found that new death sentences had reached their lowest level in 40 years, and that the number of executions was the fewest recorded in the past 20 years.
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