Between 2000 and 2009, the share of the Court’s criminal docket accounted for by non-death final judgments edged downwards, from 47.27% in 2000 and 55.17% in 2001 to 34.43% in 2005 and only 26.23% in 2007.
A large part of the reason for that was the increase in death penalty cases. When we add the death penalty share of the docket to the final non-death cases, we reach 74.55% of the docket in 2000, 77.05% in 2005, 77.36% in 2006, 75.76% in 2008 and 72.13% in 2009.
Join us back here next time as we review the data for the years 2010 through 2020.
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