9/26/24 | Media Advisory | 1600th Scheduled Execution Demonstrates Disconnect Between Elected Officials and Declining Public Support for the Death Penalty | DPI |
7/3/24 | Press Release | 200th Death Row Exoneration Underscores Flaws in U.S. Criminal Legal System | 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 13th – 17th | 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 154th 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 153rd 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 151st 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 3rd | 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 |