Articles on the Death Penalty

Recent Legislative Activity
Keep informed about proposed and enacted legislation pertaining to the death penalty.

DPIC Fact Sheet
Facts and figures on executions, death row, exonerations, and much more, updated twice a month.

DPIC Weekly Newsletter
Sign up to receive a weekly email newsletter of the week's top stories by emailing updates@deathpenaltyinfo.org

High School Curriculum
An award-winning tool for teachers and students providing an interactive, balanced overview of the death penalty.

College Curriculum  A comprehensive curriculum using real death penalty cases to explore the criminal justice system.


Materials for Communities of Faith
A CD-ROM resource designed to increase understanding and discourse on capital punishment among faith communities. The resource provides information and tools on key areas of the death penalty debate: Innocence, Race, Victims and Costs. To order, send an email to edeleon@deathpenaltyinfo.org.

DPIC's Multimedia page
An array of video and audio clips highlighting important death penalty issues and cases.

Student Resources
An extensive resource providing tools to assist students in researching and writing about the death penalty. 


DPIC Reports
A selection of reports on a wide range of death penalty topics, including DPIC's 2008 Year End Report.

Execution Database
A searchable database of all executions since 1976.

Materials available in other languages
Web pages and reports available in Spanish, German and French.

See also DPIC's Facebook page and Twitter entries.