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…

Upcoming Executions

Nov 18, 2020

In a dra­mat­ic devi­a­tion from his­tor­i­cal prac­tices, the Trump Administration is poised to con­duct the first fed­er­al exe­cu­tions dur­ing a lame-duck pres­i­den­cy in more than a cen­tu­ry. The Department of Justice has sched­uled three fed­er­al exec…

Race

Nov 17, 2020

Lawyers for fed­er­al death-row pris­on­er Orlando Hall (pic­tured), who is sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed on November 19, 2020, have filed a motion to stay his exe­cu­tion based upon evi­dence that his death sen­tence was a prod­uct of pervasive…

Nov 16, 2020

Bill Pelke (pic­tured, speak­ing to a group of stu­dents in Uganda in 2014), death penal­ty abo­li­tion­ist and founder of the Journey of Hope, died November 12, 2020 in Anchorage, Alaska. Pelke began his work to end the death penal­ty after his grandmoth…

Conditions on Death Row

Nov 16, 2020

Two death-sen­tenced pris­on­ers in Kansas have filed a fed­er­al law­suit alleg­ing that the state’s pol­i­cy of auto­mat­ic soli­tary con­fine­ment for death-row pris­on­ers is uncon­sti­tu­tion­al. The two pris­on­ers, Sidney Gleason