Special from DPIC

SPECIAL FEATURES AND RESEARCH MATERIALS:

• 2008 Year End Report
  Overview of all 2008 developments in the death penalty.
  
• 2008 News Article Index
  An index arranged by date of some of the important news articles on capital punishment from 2007 (Excel spreadsheet).
  
• Innocence
  The innocence page has received a complete make-over and now includes many full text articles on the different exonerees.
  
• High School Educational Curriculum
  A curriculum for High Schools prepared in conjunction with Michigan State University.
• College Educational Curriculum A curriculum for colleges prepared in conjunction with the Education Development Center.
• Death Penalty in Flux See the current state of the death penalty in the different states.

NEW DPIC WEB PAGES:

• Information about the Romell Broom botched execution
• Study: 88% of criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent A recent study of leading criminologists.
• Kennedy v. Louisiana A comprehensive resource on the Supreme Court Case: Kennedy v Louisiana
  
• Native Americans A Basic Overview of Native Americans and the death penalty
  
• Those Executed Who Did Not Directly Kill the Victim Covers those who have been executed for contract murders and those executed under the law of parties.
  
• Death Penalty for Offenses Other Than Murder State and Federal Laws that allow Capital Punishment when no death has occurred.
  
• Religion and the Death Penalty
  A resource on what the religious community is saying about the death penalty.
  
• Student Resources
  Assists students writing reports and planning debates.
  
• Lethal Injection
  Covers the growing debate on the constitutionality of lethal injection.
  
• Women
  Updated and redesigned, this page covers women who have received the death penalty.

DPIC MATERIALS IN OTHER LANGUAGES:

En Espanol

• Detalles Sobre la Pena de Muerte: Issues and Facts about the death penalty are available on the Spanish language edition of our website.
  
• Hechos Sobre la Pena de Muerte(PDF): DPIC's four-page Death Penalty Fact Sheet is now available in Spanish (pdf).

Auf Deutsch

• Unschuldige und ihre Faelle in Kuerze
  DPIC's Innocence List case descriptions are available in German (pdf).

En Francais

• La Peine De Mort en Noir Et Blanc: Qui Vit, Qui Meurt, Qui Decide
  DPIC's report "The Death Penalty in Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides," translated into French by Debra Mervant (pdf).