Death sentences fell in 2006 to 114 or fewer, according to an estimate from the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington organization that looks at problems with the capital punishment system. That number is down from 128 in 2005, and even lower than the 137 sentences the year after the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. It is also down sharply from the high of 317 in 1996.