Arbitrariness

Dec 01, 2020

In two long-await­ed deci­sions that will alter the land­scape of Florida’s death row, the Florida Supreme Court has lim­it­ed the reach of a land­mark rul­ing that over­turned the state’s con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­hi­bi­tion against death sen­tences imposed after a…

Methods of Execution

Nov 30, 2020

The range of meth­ods avail­able to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to car­ry out exe­cu­tions could be expand­ed under a new Department of Justice reg­u­la­tion pub­lished on November 27, 2020. The reg­u­la­tion, one of numer­ous last-minute changes in federal…

Nov 30, 2020

For the eighth time since 2007, the United Nations General Assembly has adopt­ed a res­o­lu­tion call­ing for a glob­al mora­to­ri­um on exe­cu­tions. The res­o­lu­tion passed on November 17, 2020 by a vote of 120 – 39 with 24 coun­tries abstainin…

Race

Nov 25, 2020

In the November 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Gretchen Engel (pic­tured, left), Executive Director of North Carolina’s Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL), joins Ngozi Ndulue (pic­tured, below), Senior Director of Research a…

Sentencing Alternatives

Nov 24, 2020

Public sup­port for the death penal­ty is at its low­est lev­el in a half-cen­tu­ry, with oppo­si­tion high­er than any time since 1966, accord­ing to the 2020 annu­al Gallup poll on Americans’ atti­tudes about cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. Fifty-five per­cent o…

Arbitrariness

Nov 23, 2020

Despite its defeat at the polls on November 3, the Trump admin­is­tra­tion is press­ing for­ward with efforts to con­duct an his­tor­i­cal­ly unprece­dent­ed num­ber of lame duck exe­cu­tions and in announc­ing new fed­er­al cap­i­tal pros­e­cu­tions that it will not be…

Upcoming Executions

Nov 20, 2020

South Carolina has issued a death war­rant to exe­cute Richard Moore (pic­tured) on December 4, 2020, but, his lawyers say, the state has refused to tell him how it intends to car­ry it out. In a motion to st…

Nov 19, 2020

On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court is sched­uled to con­fer­ence the case of Calvin McMillan, one of thir­ty-two Alabama death-row pris­on­ers whose death sen­tences were imposed by tri­al judges who over­rode j…