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DPI’s cur­rent month­ly pod­cast series is called ​“12:01 The Death Penalty in Context” We speak with death penal­ty experts about time­ly death penal­ty devel­op­ments in the news.

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12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

DPI’s Taylor Bonner and U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty’s Furonda Brasfield on the Racial History of the Death Penalty

Published: Feb 26, 2026

Taylor Bonner and Furonda Brasfield speak with DPI Managing Director Anne Holsinger about the racial his­to­ry of the death penal­ty and how cur­rent data and nar­ra­tives about racial jus­tice play a role in advo­ca­cy on the death penal­ty. As the Death Penalty Information Center’s Racial Justice Storyteller, Ms. Bonner blends data and his­to­ry to tell the sto­ry of the death penal­ty through­out the U.S. Ms. Brasfield is the Director of Leadership Development at the U.S. Campaign to End…

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Aramis Ayala

Fair and Just Prosecution’s Aramis Ayala on the Death Penalty, Prosecutorial Discretion, and Conviction Integrity

Published: Jan 30, 2026

In the January 2026 episode of 12:01: The Death Penalty in Context, DPI Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Aramis Ayala, Executive Director of Fair and Just Prosecution. Ms. Ayala made his­to­ry in 2016 as Florida’s first Black state attor­ney and lat­er became the first Black woman in Florida to be nom­i­nat­ed for state attor­ney gen­er­al by a major par­ty. In the pod­cast, she dis­cuss­es her deci­sion to not seek the death penal­ty, the reac­tion to her deci­sion, and the…

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Forgotten Service, Lasting Wounds

Experts Discuss New DPI Report on Veterans and the Death Penalty

Published: Nov 12, 2025

In the November 2025 episode of *12:01: The Death Penalty in Context*, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Captain Art Cody, Dr. Steven Xenakis, and DPI Staff Attorney Leah Roemer about DPI’s new report, Forgotten Service, Lasting Wounds: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty. Their con­ver­sa­tion cov­ers the legal and sci­en­tif­ic rea­sons behind the over­rep­re­sen­ta­tion of vet­er­ans on death row. Captain Cody, a retired U.S. Naval offi­cer, cur­rent­ly serves as…

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Maha Jweied

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Maha Jweied of The Responsible Business Initiative for Justice Discusses Intersection of Business and the Legal System

Published: Oct 20, 2025

In October 2025’s episode of 12:01: The Death Penalty in Context, DPI man­ag­ing direc­tor Anne Holsinger inter­views Maha Jweied. Ms. Jweied, the CEO of The Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ), is an inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized expert on the role of the pri­vate sec­tor in jus­tice sys­tems and an advo­cate for improved access to jus­tice world­wide. During the pod­cast, Ms. Jweied describes RBIJ’s mis­sion of work­ing with busi­ness lead­ers to push for criminal…

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Katerine Judson

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Katherine Judson of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences Speaks on Flawed Forensics and Robert Roberson

Published: Sep 30, 2025

In the September 2025 episode of 12:01: The Death Penalty in Context, DPI’s man­ag­ing direc­tor Anne Holsinger inter­views Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) expert Katherine Judson. Ms. Judson is Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences and for­mer Shaken Baby Syndrome/​Abusive Head Trauma Litigation Coordinator for the Wisconsin Innocence Project. In the episode, Ms. Judson pro­vides the his­to­ry behind Shaken Baby Syndrome, and why it is now known by experts as​“junk…

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Florida Attorney and Researcher Melanie Kalmanson on Recent Developments in Florida’s Death Penalty

Published: Aug 18, 2025

In the August 2025 episode of *12:01: The Death Penalty in Context*, DPI Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Melanie Kalmanson, a Florida attor­ney and author of the Substack newslet­ter *Tracking Florida’s Death Penalty*. Ms. Kalmanson’s newslet­ter com­piles data on leg­is­la­tion, cap­i­tal tri­als, death sen­tences, and exe­cu­tions in Florida. In the pod­cast, she dis­cuss­es how she start­ed fol­low­ing those devel­op­ments, key events in the recent his­to­ry of Florida’s death…

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Journalists Reflect on the Challenges and Importance of Media Reporting on the Death Penalty

Published: Jul 03, 2025

In this month’s pod­cast episode of 12:01 The Death Penalty in Context, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Sam Levin, a cor­re­spon­dent with *The Guardian* who cov­ers crim­i­nal jus­tice and the legal sys­tem, and Jimmy Jenkins, a crim­i­nal jus­tice reporter for *The Arizona Republic*, about the chal­lenges they encounter when report­ing on the increas­ing secre­tive use of the death penal­ty. Mr. Jenkins has wit­nessed exe­cu­tions in Arizona and Mr. Levin has recently…

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Corinna Barrett Lain

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Author Corinna Barrett Lain on the ​“Untold Story” of Lethal Injection

Published: May 21, 2025

In this month’s pod­cast episode of *12:01 The Death Penalty in Context*, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Corinna Barrett Lain, the S.D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law and author of the recent­ly pub­lished book, *Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection*. Ms. Lain’s new book chal­lenges a wide­ly held assump­tion that lethal injec­tion is a pain­less, reg­u­lat­ed, and medically-sound…

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Experts Discuss the Legacy of Roper v. Simmons

Published: May 01, 2025

In this month’s pod­cast episode of *12:01: The Death Penalty* *in Context*, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Professors Craig Haney and Frank Baumgartner, and DPI’s Staff Attorney Leah Roemer about the lega­cy of the US Supreme Court’s deci­sion in *Roper v. Simmons* and the legal and sci­en­tif­ic land­scape sur­round­ing the use of the death penal­ty for young adults ages 18 – 20. Professors Baumgartner and Haney, along with fel­low researcher Karen Steele,…

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Sabrina Butler-Smith on Wrongful Convictions and Motherhood

Published: Mar 20, 2025

In this month’s pod­cast episode of *12:01 The Death Penalty in Context*, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Sabrina Butler-Smith (pic­tured), who was wrong­ful­ly con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death at age 17 for caus­ing the death of her nine-month-old son. After two years and nine months on death row, Ms. Butler-Smith’s con­vic­tion was over­turned. At a sec­ond tri­al, it was deter­mined that her son died from a seri­ous med­ical con­di­tion, poly­cys­tic kidney disease,…

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The Past, Present, and Future of the California Racial Justice Act

Published: Feb 27, 2025

Here’s the descrip­tion for today’s pod­cast: In the February 2025 episode of 12:01: The Death Penalty in Context, DPI Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with three experts on California’s Racial Justice Act (RJA). Natasha Minsker, an attor­ney and con­sul­tant, for­mer­ly of the ACLU, speaks on the his­to­ry of the RJA and the impe­tus for its pas­sage. Genevie Gold, research and writ­ing fel­low at the Office of the State Public Defender (OSPD), describes the process that an RJA claim…