News & Developments
Innocence
Jun 23, 2021
As More Evidence of Innocence Emerges, 34 Oklahoma Legislators Call on Governor for Investigation of Death-Row Prisoner Richard Glossip’s Conviction
Following additional revelations that Richard Glossip (pictured) may be innocent of the murder that sent him to Oklahoma’s death row in 1998, a bipartisan group of 34 state legislators are calling upon Gov…
Conditions on Death Row
Jun 22, 2021
BOOKS: “Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row”
Unheard voices from death row come to life in the new book, Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row. The book, a collaborative project between the arts collective Hidden Voices and more than 100 men o…
Lethal Injection
Jun 21, 2021
Nevada Proposes to Execute Zane Floyd with Untried Drug Combination
The Nevada Department of Corrections (NVDOC) intends to execute death-row prisoner Zane Floyd with a three- or four-drug combination that has never been used before to put a prisoner to death. In a proposed execut…
Jun 21, 2021
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of June 14, 2021
NEWS (6/17/21) — Ohio: A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has granted a new trial to Ohio death-row prisoner
Race
Jun 18, 2021
DPIC Commemorates Juneteenth: Our Report, Enduring Injustice, Details the Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty
Today, the DPIC office is closed in observance of Juneteenth, which celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. As we commemorate this holiday, we remember the historical relationship between slavery, lynching, Jim Crow se…
Methods of Execution
Jun 17, 2021
South Carolina Supreme Court Halts Executions of Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens
The South Carolina Supreme Court has vacated death warrants for two death-row prisoners scheduled to be executed this month, staying their executions until the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC) complies with a newly…
Clemency
Jun 16, 2021
White House Reasserts Opposition to Death Penalty, Stresses Independence of Justice Department as DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Death Sentence in Boston Marathon Bombing
As the Department of Justice filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking reinstatement of the death sentence imposed on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing, the White House press office issued a s…
Methods of Execution
Jun 15, 2021
Alabama Readies Death Chamber for Nitrogen Hypoxia Executions
As South Carolina and Arizona prepare to resume executions using gruesome methods of the past, Alabama prosecutors say the state is nearly ready to perform executions using a new, untested method,…
Innocence
Jun 14, 2021
‘The Phantom’: A Documentary About the Wrongful Execution of Carlos DeLuna Premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival
A new documentary about the case of Carlos DeLuna, a likely innocent man who was executed in Texas in 1989, premieres June 14, 2021 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Jun 14, 2021
Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of June 7, 2021
NEWS (6/9/21) — Nebraska: A panel of three judges has sentenced Aubrey Trail to death for the 2017 killing of Sydney Loofe. In a s…