DPIC 2019 Year End Report: Death Penalty Erodes Further As New Hampshire Abolishes and California Imposes Moratorium

Race

Jan 20, 2020

On Martin Luther King Day, DPIC looks at the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s views on the death penal­ty. Dr. King’s phi­los­o­phy of non-vio­lence had no room for cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. In one of his most famous ser­mons, Lov…

Clemency

Jan 17, 2020

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has grant­ed clemen­cy to death-row pris­on­er Jimmy Meders (pic­tur…

Lethal Injection

Jan 16, 2020

A three-judge pan­el of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard near­ly two hours of argu­ment on January 15, 2020 in four con­sol­i­dat­ed cas­es that could deter­mine whether the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment will be able to resume exe­cu­tions in 2020. …

Upcoming Executions

Jan 15, 2020

As Texas pre­pares to car­ry out the first exe­cu­tion of 2020 on January 15, neigh­bor­ing Oklahoma — once the sec­ond most pro­lif­ic exe­cu­tion­er in the United States — will mark five years since its last exe­cu­tion. The …

Innocence

Jan 14, 2020

Just Mercy, the movie adap­ta­tion of Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Executive Director Bryan Stevenson’s book of the same…

Innocence

Jan 13, 2020

On January 16, Georgia plans to exe­cute Jimmy Meders (pic­tured in his National Guard uni­form), a man whom jurors say they would have sen­tenced to l…

Innocence

Jan 10, 2020

In two cas­es in which the death penal­ty played a cen­tral role, recent exonerees in Florida and Idaho have ini­ti­at­ed legal pro­ceed­ings against gov­ern­ment offi­cials, alleg­ing that they were wrong­ful­ly pros­e­cut­ed and…

Death Row Overview

Jan 09, 2020

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that the 2015 leg­isla­tive repeal of the state’s death-penal­ty statute did not inval­i­date the death sen­tences of the pris­on­ers on the state’s death row because the repeal bill nev­er became law b…

Race

Jan 08, 2020

After hav­ing been rebuked by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2019 for his pat­tern of racial­ly biased jury selec­tion in the cap­i­tal pros­e­cu­tions of 

Costs

Jan 07, 2020

On January 7, 2020, Louisiana marked the pas­sage of ten years since its last exe­cu­tion. As a result of the mile­stone, two-thirds of U.S. states have now either abol­ished the death penal­ty or gone at least a decade with­out a…