DPIC has added a new easy-to-use state database of death penalty information to its Web site. In addition, Richard Dieter’s (DPIC’s Executive Director) testimony before the New York State Assembly Standing Committees on Codes, Judiciary, and Correction regarding the costs of the death penalty is also available. The Committees are holding hearings on whether New York should re-instate the death penalty.

To access information on any state’s death row population, the number of exonerations, executions, or clemencies, and to learn facts about the state’s history of the death penalty, and more: Click Here. For the testimony on costs: Read the PDF File of Mr. Dieter’s testimony

(January 25, 2005).