Entries by Jeti Edwards

In her February 2026 arti­cle pub­lished by the Georgia State University Law Review, University of the District of Columbia Law Professor Ngozi Ndulue argues that recent trends have shift­ed the fed­er­al death penal­ty​“from being a lag­gard to being a leader in nation­al death penal­ty trends.” Written before the most recent changes to fed­er­al death penal­ty pol­i­cy by the Trump admin­is­tra­tion were imple­ment­ed, her arti­cle high­lights how fed­er­al death penal­ty cas­es, though…

#### DPI​’s​“What to Know” series exam­ines cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment from mul­ti­ple angles, one top­ic at a time. Each install­ment pro­vides essen­tial facts and data on spe­cif­ic aspects of the death penal­ty. Why it mat­ters: State laws per­mit­ting judges to over­ride jury deci­sions and the impo­si­tion of death sen­tences based on non-unan­i­­­mous jury ver­dicts have con­tributed to Alabama and Florida’s high death sen­tenc­ing rates — with near­ly 20% of Alabama’s death-sentenced population…