• Home
  • Issues
    • Arbitrariness
    • Clemency
    • Costs
    • Deterrence
    • Federal Death Penalty
    • Foreign Nationals
    • Innocence
    • Intellectual Disability
    • International
    • Juveniles
    • Life Without Parole
    • Mental Illness
    • Native Americans
    • Race
    • Representation
    • U.S. Military
    • Victims
    • Women
    • More Issues
  • Resources
    • Articles
    • Books
    • Editorials
    • Educational Curricula
    • Executions Database
    • Law Review
    • Multimedia
    • New Voices
    • Public Opinion
    • Related Web Sites
    • Religion
    • State by State Database
    • State Information
    • Student Resources
    • Studies
    • Testimony, Resolutions, Statements, & Speeches
    • Weekly Newsletter
    • Death Penalty Quiz
    • More Resources
  • Facts
    • Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty
    • Death Row
    • Executions
    • Lethal Injection
    • en Espanol
    • History of the Death Penalty
    • Murder Rates
    • Recent Legislative Activity
    • Sentencing
    • States With the Death Penalty
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • Upcoming Executions
  • Reports
  • Press
  • About
    • About DPIC
    • DPIC Newsletter
    • Staff & Board of Directors
    • Support this Work
    • Connect with DPIC
  • Donate

Additional Issues

  • North Carolina Supreme Court Debates Doctors' Roles in Executions
  • Senators Leahy and Specter Introduce Habeas Corpus Restoration Act
  • The Military Commissions Act of 2006: A Short Primer
  • Terrorism Trial's Strategies Revealed
  • U.S. Plans Death Camp
  • September 11, 2001: A Forum of Information and News, Especially Related to Capital Punishment
  • Terrorist Attacks Affirm Need for a Paradigm Shift
  • U.S. death penalty could prove hurdle to extradition of terror suspects from Britain
  • The trial of Bin Laden: What to do if terrorist suspect is taken alive?
  • World Court Should Hear Sept. 11 Case
  • View More

Arbitrariness

  • FROM DPIC: 'The Death Penalty by County' Underscores Geographic Disparities
  • Execution Approaching While Key DNA Evidence Remains Untested
  • NEW VOICES: Conservative Judge Who Imposed Death Sentences Changes His Mind
  • INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: Federal Appeals Court Says Evidence of Mental Retardation Is Too Late
  • Connecticut Supreme Court Considers Executions After Death Penalty Repeal
  • FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY: A Puerto Rican Jury Again Votes Against Death Penalty
  • ARBITRARINESS: Death Penalty Does Not Fall on Worst Offenders
  • NEW VOICES: Editorial Signals a Change in Position in Nebraska
  • MULTIMEDIA: Bill Moyers Addresses Inequities in the Death Penalty
  • MULTIMEDIA: Prof. John Bessler Takes Listeners on an Historical Journey Exploring Arbitrariness in the Death Penalty
  • View More

Clemency

  • EDITORIALS: Colorado Case Raises Doubts About Entire Death Penalty System
  • NEW VOICES: Former Law Enforcement Officials, Judges, Faith Leaders Urge Commutation for Colorado Inmate
  • INNOCENCE: Alabama Lawmakers Unanimously Vote to Pardon Scottsboro Boys
  • Maryland Takes Crucial Step Towards Death Penalty Repeal
  • Ohio Parole Board Recommends Clemency Because of Inadequate Representation
  • UPCOMING EXECUTIONS: Mentally Ill Oklahoma Inmate To Die Nov. 6
  • Family of Man Executed in Texas Seeks Posthumous Pardon
  • UPCOMING EXECUTIONS: Texas Defendant Asks Pardons Board to Look Beyond Single Crime
  • Philadelphia Judge Cites Withheld Evidence in Granting New Sentencing Trial to Terrance Williams
  • MENTAL ILLNESS: Evangelical Leaders Call for Mercy for Condemned Inmate
  • View More

Costs

  • NEW VOICES: Oregon Leaders Speak Out About the Death Penalty
  • NEW VOICES: Conservative Judge Who Imposed Death Sentences Changes His Mind
  • NEW VOICES: Cost and Impact on Victims' Families Among Concerns for Conservative Christians
  • LAW REVIEWS: "Oregon's Death Penalty: The Practical Reality"
  • NEW VOICES: Questioning the Decision to Seek the Death Penalty Against James Holmes
  • Death Penalty Costs Diverting Money from Urgent Criminal Justice Needs
  • ARBITRARINESS: Officials Discuss Indiana's "Other Lottery"--the Death Penalty
  • EDITORIALS: Montana Paper Calls for Repeal
  • ARBITRARINESS: Pennsylvania's Costly and Broken Death Penalty System
  • NEW RESOURCES: View DPIC's Latest Infographics as a Slide Show
  • View More

Deterrence

  • NEW VOICES: Former Prosecutor Calls for Clemency in Upcoming Colorado Execution
  • STUDIES: FBI Releases 2011 Crime Report Showing Drop in Murder Rates
  • EDITORIALS: Evidence Does Not Support Death Penalty As Deterrent
  • NEW VOICES: Growing Concerns in Utah About High Cost of the Death Penalty
  • OP-ED: "Time to Kill the Death Penalty?"
  • MULTIMEDIA: "David R. Dow: Lessons from Death Row Inmates"
  • DETERRENCE: Why the Studies Have Failed to Produce Reliable Results
  • COMMENTARY: Death Penalty Climate Changing
  • NEW VOICES: Jimmy Carter, Former President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Calls for End to Death Penalty
  • DETERRENCE: National Research Council Concludes Deterrence Studies Should Not Influence Death Penalty Policy
  • View More

Federal Death Penalty

  • FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY: A Puerto Rican Jury Again Votes Against Death Penalty
  • Supreme Court to Review Protection Against Self-Incrimination in Kansas Death Case
  • FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY: Juries in Puerto Rico Continue to Reject Death Penalty
  • COSTS: Federal Case Reveals High Costs of Death Penalty Prosecutions
  • BOOKS: "Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure"
  • ARBITRARINESS: One U.S. Attorney in Upstate New York Stands Out in Seeking Federal Death Penalty
  • NEW VOICES: Rhode Island's Governor Explains His Resistance to Federal Death Penalty Case
  • First Federal Death Sentence in Non-Death Penalty State Overturned
  • DPIC RESOURCE: The Military Death Penalty
  • Expensive Federal Death Penalty Case Ends with Life Without Parole
  • View More

Foreign Nationals

  • POSSIBLE INNOCENCE: DNA Results Indicate Death Row Inmate May Be Innocent
  • FOREIGN NATIONALS: Information About Foreign Citizens on U.S. Death Rows
  • FOREIGN NATIONALS: Reprieve Issues New Report on Foreign Nationals on Death Row In U.S.
  • INTERNATIONAL: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Calls for Hold on Executions
  • CLEMENCY: Daughter in Canada Asks Montana Governor to Spare Her Father's Life
  • FOREIGN NATIONALS: Information About Citizens from Other Countries on U.S. Death Rows
  • FOREIGN NATIONALS: The Importance of Intervention for Citizens of Other Countries Facing U.S. Death Penalty
  • UPCOMING EXECUTION: Florida Case Raises Numerous Legal Concerns
  • FOREIGN NATIONALS: Obama Administration and U.N. High Commissioner Seek Relief for Texas Death Row Inmate
  • NEW VOICES: Journalist Who Was Arrested Abroad Emphasizes Importance of Consular Access
  • View More

Innocence

  • Texas Enacts "Michael Morton Act" Intended to Reduce Wrongful Convictions
  • NEW VOICES: Oregon Leaders Speak Out About the Death Penalty
  • Former Death Row Inmates Are Ambassadors of Change
  • POSSIBLE INNOCENCE: DNA Results Indicate Death Row Inmate May Be Innocent
  • Execution Approaching While Key DNA Evidence Remains Untested
  • EDITORIALS: Miami Herald Calls on Governor to Block Fast-Track Executions
  • RECENT LEGISLATION: Texas Legislature Examining Problems of Innocence and Racial Bias
  • NEW VOICES: PBS Airing of "The Central Park Five" Underscores Problem of Innocence
  • INNOCENCE: Alabama Lawmakers Unanimously Vote to Pardon Scottsboro Boys
  • INNOCENCE: Update of National Registry of Exonerations Shows Increased Cooperation from Prosecutors
  • View More

International

  • LETHAL INJECTION: British Manufacturer Stops Drug Supply to Arkansas for Executions
  • INTERNATIONAL: New Report Examines Countries That Have Abandoned Death Penalty
  • STUDIES: "The Death Penalty in Japan"
  • STUDIES: Amnesty International Reports Continued Movement Away from Capital Punishment
  • RESOURCES: "Handbook of Forensic Psychiatric Practice in Capital Cases"
  • Lethal Injection Developments Around the Country
  • RESOURCES: International Reports Look at Human Rights Decisions and Death-Eligible Crimes
  • FOREIGN NATIONALS: Information About Foreign Citizens on U.S. Death Rows
  • INTERNATIONAL: Roman Colosseum Lit to Mark Connecticut's Abolition of Death Penalty
  • INTERNATIONAL: U.N. Death Penalty Resolution Backed by Record Number of Countries
  • View More

Juveniles

  • NEW VOICES: PBS Airing of "The Central Park Five" Underscores Problem of Innocence
  • NEW VOICES: UN Secretary-General Calls for Worldwide End to the Death Penalty
  • BOOKS: "Make Me Believe: A Crime Novel Based on Real Events"
  • BOOKS: "Anatomy of an Execution"
  • Florida Inmate Who Faced Death Penalty at 15 to be Freed 26 Years Later
  • NOW PLAYING IN NY: “The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley,” a Play by John Fleming
  • Former Death Row Inmate Acquitted at Re-Trial
  • Texas Governor Commutes 28 Juvenile Offender Death Sentences
  • Supreme Court Bans Execution of Juvenile Offenders
  • NEW RESOURCE: Study Examines Mental Status and Childhood Backgrounds of Juveniles on Death Row
  • View More

Life Without Parole

  • PUBLIC OPINION: Strong Majority of North Carolinians Prefer Life Without Parole Over the Death Penalty
  • Maryland Takes Crucial Step Towards Death Penalty Repeal
  • SENTENCING: No Death Sentences in North Carolina for the First Time Since 1977
  • California Retains Death Penalty by Narrow Margin
  • RESOURCES: New Study Examines Effect of Death Penalty on Plea Bargaining
  • U.S. MILITARY: Latest Sentence Reversal Follows Trend of Rarely Using Death Penalty
  • Use of the Death Penalty in California Declines in Key Counties
  • MULTIMEDIA: Interview with Michael Selsor-Served Longest Time Between Conviction and Execution
  • NEW VOICES: South Carolina Officials Point to Costs and Uncertainty for Death Penalty's Decline
  • CLEMENCY: Georgia Board Commutes Death Sentence of 'Model Prisoner'
  • View More

Mental Illness

  • NEW VOICES: Questioning the Decision to Seek the Death Penalty Against James Holmes
  • RESOURCES: "Handbook of Forensic Psychiatric Practice in Capital Cases"
  • STUDIES: Six-Part Series Explores Mental Illness and the Death Penalty in Texas
  • Supreme Court to Review Protection Against Self-Incrimination in Kansas Death Case
  • MENTAL ILLNESS: Texas Inmate Gouges Out Eyes, Remains on Death Row
  • First Inmate to be Executed in 2013 Asked for Death Penalty; Exhibited Severe Mental Illness
  • Supreme Court Allows Death Penalty Review to Proceed Even Without Competent Defendant
  • UPCOMING EXECUTIONS: Mentally Ill Oklahoma Inmate To Die Nov. 6
  • MENTAL ILLNESS: At 11th Hour, Supreme Court Upholds Stay of Execution for Florida Inmate
  • MENTAL ILLNESS: Florida Set to Execute Man Despite Judge's Finding of Paranoid Schizophrenia
  • View More

Mental Retardation

  • Controversial Texas Case on Mental Retardation Results in Life Sentence
  • INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: Federal Appeals Court Says Evidence of Mental Retardation Is Too Late
  • EDITORIALS: "With Death Penalty Bans Gaining Steam, What's Next for Texas?"
  • Georgia Disabilities Expert Calls for Halt to Execution of Inmate with Mental Retardation
  • Sentence of One of Alabama's Longest Serving Death Row Inmates Reduced After 30 Years
  • Former Death Row Inmate Imprisoned for 30 Years in Texas With No Conviction
  • INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: Texas Stands Alone in Its Unusual Test of Mental Retardation and Exemption from Execution
  • Executions Scheduled for July 18 in Texas and Georgia Present Serious Mental Health Issues
  • Ohio Governor Grants Clemency Based on Defendant's Mental Capacity
  • EDITORIALS: "An Urgent Plea for Mercy"
  • View More

Native Americans

  • NEW RESOURCES: Native Americans and the Death Penalty
  • Native Americans and the Death Penalty

Race

  • RECENT LEGISLATION: Texas Legislature Examining Problems of Innocence and Racial Bias
  • INNOCENCE: Alabama Lawmakers Unanimously Vote to Pardon Scottsboro Boys
  • MULTIMEDIA: Bill Moyers Addresses Inequities in the Death Penalty
  • RACE: New Study Shows Racial Bias in Seeking the Death Penalty in Harris County
  • MULTIMEDIA: Prof. John Bessler Takes Listeners on an Historical Journey Exploring Arbitrariness in the Death Penalty
  • MENTAL ILLNESS: Texas Inmate Gouges Out Eyes, Remains on Death Row
  • STUDIES: Racial Bias in Houston's Use of Death Penalty
  • UPCOMING EXECUTION: Lawyers Request Reprieve Because of Racial Bias in Dallas County
  • NEW RESOURCES: View DPIC's Latest Infographics as a Slide Show
  • LAW REVIEWS: The Enduring Significance of Studies Showing Racial Bias in the Death Penalty
  • View More

Representation

  • MULTIMEDIA: New Documentary Explores Landmark Right to Counsel Case
  • Prominent Former Prosecutors Fight for Death Row Inmate's Life
  • REPRESENTATION: On 50th Anniversary of Gideon, Some on Death Row Poorly Represented
  • MULTIMEDIA: Prof. John Bessler Takes Listeners on an Historical Journey Exploring Arbitrariness in the Death Penalty
  • BOOKS: The Impact of the Death Penalty on Attorneys for the Condemned
  • Drug-Addicted, Suicidal Lawyer Files Improper Appeal, But Death Row Inmate Suffers Consequences
  • Ohio Parole Board Recommends Clemency Because of Inadequate Representation
  • EDITORIALS: Preserving Independent Funding for Death Penalty Representation
  • Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Texas Case on Representation for Death Row Appeals
  • Tennessee Judge Overturns Capital Conviction Because of Undiscovered Evidence
  • View More

U.S. Military

  • U.S. MILITARY: Latest Sentence Reversal Follows Trend of Rarely Using Death Penalty
  • STUDIES: Military Death Sentence More Likely for Defendants of Color
  • NEW VOICES: A Veteran's Perspective on the Death Penalty
  • High Percentage of U.S. Military Death Sentences Overturned
  • STUDIES: Significant Racial Disparities Found in Military Death Penalty
  • DPIC RESOURCE: The Military Death Penalty
  • U.S. Military Death Penalty: Facts and Figures
  • NEW VOICES: Veterans and the Death Penalty
  • STUDIES: Disparate Administration of the Military Death Penalty
  • ARBITRARINESS: U.S. Military Rejects Guilty Plea Offer to Seek Death Penalty and Soldier is Freed
  • View More

Victims

  • NEW VOICES: Nebraska Senator Changes Course After Hearing from Victims' Families
  • NEW VOICES: Questioning the Decision to Seek the Death Penalty Against James Holmes
  • NEW VOICES: Former Warden, Victim Advocate, and Governor Urge Repeal in Oregon
  • NEW VOICES: Father of Slain Corrections Officer Reverses Course on Death Penalty
  • EDITORIALS: Montana Paper Calls for Repeal
  • BOOKS: "Capital Punishment's Collateral Damage"
  • NEW VOICES: Growing Coalition Supports Repeal of New Hampshire Death Penalty
  • NEW VOICES: Victims and Relatives Support Life Sentence in Alabama Mass Shooting
  • NEW VOICES: A Mother Shares Her Grief and Joins the Call for Mercy
  • EDITORIALS: Sacramento Bee Ends Support for Death Penalty
  • View More

Women

  • BOOKS: "Women Who Kill Men"--An Historical and Social Analysis
  • BOOKS: "Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America"
  • STUDIES:"Death Penalty for Female Offenders"
  • Texas Woman May be Spared Death Penalty Because of Prosecutorial Misconduct
  • NEW RESOURCES: DPIC Podcast Addresses Women and the Death Penalty.
  • STUDIES: Gender Bias in Death Sentencing
  • Two New Federal Death Sentences in Non-Death Penalty State
  • NEW RESOURCES: “Death Penalty for Female Offenders”
  • Virginia Governor Denies Clemency to Woman with Low IQ
  • NEW VOICES: John Grisham Asks-- Why is Teresa Lewis on Death Row?
  • View More

Home | RSS | About DPIC | Privacy Policy

©2013 Death Penalty Information Center