DPIC Reports
Dec 17, 2019
The death penalty has now disappeared from whole regions of the country and continues to erode in others, according to the
Read MoreInnocence
Feb 28, 2020
Nathaniel Woods (pictured, left) did not shoot Alabama police officers Charles Bennett, Carlos “Curly” Owen, and Harley Chisholm III (pictured left to right, below). But because of alleged police misconduct, incom…
Mental Illness
Feb 27, 2020
A divided U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that James McKinney (pictured), an Arizona death-row prisoner who was unconstitutionally sentenced to death by a trial judge who did not consider mitigating …
Recent Legislative Activity
Feb 26, 2020
The Colorado legislature has sent to the Governor a bill that would prospectively abolish the state’s death penalty. On February 26, one day after a marathon 12-hour debate on the floor of the House, the Colorado …
Innocence
Feb 26, 2020
Tennessee has set two more execution dates for 2020, directed, advocates say, at men whose cases present unresolved issues of innocence, intellectual disability, and mental competency.On February 24, 2020, the Tennessee Sup…
Mental Illness
Feb 25, 2020
Vernon Madison, an Alabama death-row prisoner whose severe dementia led to a major …
Feb 24, 2020
Nine years after an American Bar Association (ABA) study identified systemic…
Recent Legislative Activity
Feb 23, 2020
Colorado — The House Judiciary committee voted 6 – 3 on February 18 to approve SB 20 – 100, a bill that would prospectively repea…
Innocence
Feb 21, 2020
A Florida state court judge has granted death-row prisoner James Dailey an evidentiary hearing on his claim that he did not commit the murder for which he was sentenced to death three decades ago.On Februar…
Feb 20, 2020
Tennessee executed Nicholas Sutton on February 20, one day after Governor Bill Lee denied a petition for clemency that had been supported by seven correctional officers, five jurors, and members of the victims’ families. In…
Recent Legislative Activity
Feb 20, 2020
Nebraska’s unicameral legislature voted on February 13, 2020 to advance a bill that would increase transparency in the state’s execution process.
