Innocence

Jun 23, 2021

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

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

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…

Race

Jun 18, 2021

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

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

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

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

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.