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Note: Inclusion of press releases and media advisories not released by Death Penalty Information Center does not imply the Center’s endorsement of the views expressed.

Press Releases 2014 – present

Date	Type	Title	Released By
9/26/24	Media Advisory	1600^th Scheduled Execution Demonstrates Disconnect Between Elected Officials and Declining Public Support for the Death Penalty	DPI
7/3/24	Press Release	200^th Death Row Exoneration Underscores Flaws in U.S. Criminal Legal System	DPI
12/1/23	Press Release	Only Five States Conducted Executions and Seven States Imposed New Death Sentences in 2023, the Lowest Number of States in 20 Years	DPI
5/15/23	Press Release	New DPIC Director Robin M Maher	DPI
1/30/23	Press Release	Robert Dunham to Leave Death Penalty Information Center After 8 Years as Executive Director, Board Names Richard Dieter as Interim Director	DPI
12/17/22	Statement	Statement by Robert Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, on the Murder of Death-Row Exoneree Christopher Williams	DPI
12/16/22	Press Release	2022 Saw Record Number of Botched Executions	DPI
11/21/22	Statement	Statement by Robert Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center On Governor Kay Ivey’s Call for an Investigation of Alabama’s Execution Failures	DPI
10/14/22	Press Release	New Report Places Oklahoma’s Death Penalty in its Historical Context of Lynchings and Mass Violence Against Black Oklahomans and the Forced Migration of Native Americans	DPI
6/28/22	Press Release	Death Penalty Information Center Launches First Comprehensive Database of Every Death Sentence Handed Down Between Court’s Ruling in Furman and Jan. 1, 2021	DPI
12/16/21	Press Release	Executions and Death Sentences Near Record Lows in 2021, as Virginia Becomes First Southern State to Abolish the Death Penalty	DPI
3/24/21	Statement	Statement by Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, on Virginia’s Abolition of Capital Punishment	DPI
2/18/21	Press Release	Death Penalty Information Center Adds 11 People to Innocence List	DPI
12/16/20	Press Release	Executions and Death Sentences Drop to Historic Lows in 2020, even as Federal Government Ramps Up Executions	DPI
9/15/2020	Press Release	DPIC Releases Report Placing Death Penalty in Historical Context as a “Descendant of Slavery, Lynching, and Segregation”	DPI
7/13/20	Statement	Statement by Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, on the Federal Executions of Daniel Lewis Lee, Wesley Ira Purkey, and Dustin Lee Honken the Week of July 13^th – 17^th	DPI
6/8/20	Statement	Statement of Death Penalty Information Center Staff Concerning the Death of George Floyd	DPI
3/23/20	Statement	Statement by Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center on Colorado’s Repeal of Its Death-Penalty Statute	DPI
12/17/19	Press Release	Death Penalty Erodes Further in 2019 as New Hampshire Abolishes and California Imposes Moratorium	DPI
9/3/19	Statement	Statement by DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham Concerning Federal Proposal for Reduced Appellate Review of Murders Involving Mass Shootings or Deaths of Police Officers	DPI
6/26/19	Press Release	CHARLES RAY FINCH EXONERATED IN NORTH CAROLINA 43 YEARS AFTER BEING SENTENCED TO DEATH	DPI
5/30/19	Statement	Statement by Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center on New Hampshire’s Repeal of Its Death-Penalty Statute	DPI
5/28/19	Statement	Statement by Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham Regarding the Death of Exoneree Harold Wilson	DPI
3/13/19	Press Release	California Governor Announces Moratorium on Executions One-Third of U.S. Death Row Prisoners Now Under Moratorium	DPI
12/14/18	Press Release	2018 Marked the Fourth Consecutive Year with Fewer than 30 Executions and Less than 50 Death Sentences	DPI
11/29/18	Press Release	Involvement of Tainted Pharmacy in Texas Executions Highlights Risk of Death-Penalty Secrecy Laws	DPI
11/20/18	Press Release	Death Penalty Information Center Releases Comprehensive Study of State Secrecy Laws	DPI
12/17/17	Press Release	U.S. Sees Second Fewest Death Sentences and Executions in 25 Years	DPI
8/22/17	Press Release	Statement of Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, on Marcellus Williams’ Stay of Execution	DPI
7/10/17	Press Release	Executions, New Death Sentences Remain Near Historic Lows in First Half of 2017	DPI
4/19/17	Press Release	Rodricus Crawford Exonerated from Louisiana Death Row	DPI
3/7/17	Press Release	Statement of Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, on the release of the National Registry of Exonerations’ reports Exonerations in 2016 and Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States	DPI
12/21/16	Press Release	Death Sentences, Executions Drop to Historic Lows in 2016	DPI
5/23/16	Press Release	Statement of Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman	DPI
1/27/16	Press Release	Windows on Death Row: Art from Inside and Outside the Prison Walls	Windows on Death Row
12/15/15	Press Release	Death Penalty Use in 2015 Declines Sharply: Fewest Executions, Fewest Death Sentences, and Fewest States Employing the Death Penalty in Decades	DPI
11/10/15	Press Release	New Report Shines Light on Military Veterans Facing the Death Penalty	DPI
6/9/15	Press Release	Texas Man Becomes 154^th Exonerated from Death Row; Charges Dropped Against Alfred Dewayne Brown in Killing of Houston Police Officer After Prosecution Withheld Key Alibi Evidence	DPI
5/28/15	Press Release	Statement by Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), on Nebraska’s repeal of the death penalty	DPI
5/04/15	Press Release	Mississippi Man is Exonerated from Death Row \| Willie Manning Becomes 153^rd Person Added to the Death Penalty Information Center’s Innocence List; May Have Been Wrongfully Convicted of Two Sets of Murders	DPI
4/29/15	Media Advisory	U.S. Supreme Court to Hold Oral Argument on Lethal Injection Challenge on Wednesday	DPI
4/3/15	Press Release	ALABAMA EXONERATES MAN WHO SPENT 30 YEARS ON DEATH ROW FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT;	DPI
4/2/15	Press Release	Equal Justice Initiative Wins Release of Anthony Ray Hinton	Equal Justice Initiative
3/27/15	Press Release	U.S. Supreme Court to Hold Oral Argument in Case where Man was Found Intellectually Disabled, But Continues to Face Execution	DPI
3/23/15	Press Release	DEBRA MILKE EXONERATED FROM ARIZONA DEATH ROW: USA’s 151^st Death-Row Exoneration	DPI
3/9/15	Press Release	THE DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER WELCOMES NEW DIRECTOR \| Long-Time Director Assumes New Role, as Organization Expands Resources	DPI
3/5/15	Press Release	Murder Victims’ Families, State Legislators to File Briefs Affirming California’s Death Penalty is Broken Beyond Repair	Attorneys for Ernest Jones
1/19/15	Press Release	Federal Court Asked to Prevent Ohio’s Secrecy Law from Taking Effect — Death Row Prisoners Seek Preliminary Injunction of New Statute which Silences Speech for One Side of Lethal Injection Debate	Attorneys for Ron Phillips
11/20/14	Press Release	OHIO EXONERATES FORMER DEATH ROW INMATE 39 YEARS AFTER CONVICTION	DPI
11/19/14	Press Release	Worldwide Support Grows for Clemency for Scott Panetti, A Paranoid Schizophrenic Scheduled for Execution on December 3^rd	Texas Defender Service
11/12/14	Press Release	Dozens of Mental Health Organizations and Experts, Former Prosecutors, Evangelicals and the American Bar Association Urge Texas Governor to Commute Death Sentence of Severely Mentally Ill Man Facing Imminent Execution	Texas Defender Service
10/09/14	Press Release	Innocent Man Released from Prison after Nine Years, Four on Death Row	ACLU Capital Punishment Project
9/3/14	Press Release	THIRTY YEARS AFTER TWO BLACK TEENAGERS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN NORTH CAROLINA, JUDGE DECLARES THEM INNOCENT	DPI
9/2/14	Press Release	DNA evidence frees two innocent N.C. men 30 years after wrongful conviction	Attorneys for Leon Brown and Henry McCollum
8/4/14	Press Release	Newly Formed Marshall Project Details New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Resulting in Likely Wrongful Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham	Marshall Project
7/6/14	Press Release	Statement from Attorneys for Hank Skinner in Response to State District Court’s Ruling	Attorneys for Hank Skinner
6/26/14	Press Release	Arizona Death Row Prisoners Sue State Officials Alleging Human Experimentation in Executions	Attorneys for Arizona Death Row Inmates
6/25/14	Press Release	Oklahoma Death Row Prisoners Sue State Officials to Avoid Future Problems with Executions	Attorneys for Oklahoma Death Row Inmates
4/28/14	Press Release	NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES STUDY POINTS TO HIGH RATE OF INNOCENCE ON DEATH ROW	DPI
3/12/14	Press Release	NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE OVERWHELMINGLY VOTES TO REPEAL DEATH PENALTY	DPI
3/12/14	Press Release	LOUISIANA INMATE EXONERATED AND FREED FROM DEATH ROW AFTER 30 YEARS	DPI

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