On this day in 1995: New York City reinstates the death penalty

Start:	Sep 1, '09
Location:	New York State

But on June 24, 2004, New York's highest court declared the state's death penalty unconstitutional.

Three years ago, New York legislators declined to revive that state’s death penalty statute concluding that with more than a decade of new information about how it worked in practice, its high costs, and the inherent risk of executing innocent people, maintaining it could not be justified.