On Tuesday, November 19, 2024, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) announces the launch of its updat­ed web­site and new visu­al iden­ti­ty. The refreshed, more intu­itive nav­i­ga­tion bar is the first phase of improve­ments that will make it eas­i­er for vis­i­tors to access DPI’s data, reports, analy­sis, and resources. Visitors will also find DPI’s new logo and oth­er changes to update the organization’s visu­al brand and appearance. 

The new DPI logo takes the com­mon sym­bol for ​“infor­ma­tion” – a low­er­case let­ter i – and adjusts it slight­ly to resem­ble the hands of a clock show­ing 12:01 am. This is a sub­tle nod to the his­tor­i­cal prac­tice of set­ting exe­cu­tions to occur just after mid­night, in com­plete secre­cy. The new logo reflects DPI’s sub­ject-mat­ter exper­tise with its mis­sion of pro­vid­ing accu­rate, time­ly, and com­plete infor­ma­tion to the pub­lic about capital punishment.

The updat­ed nav­i­ga­tion bar allo­cates DPI’s web­site into five areas:

  • Policy Issues relat­ed to the death penal­ty, as well as pages high­light­ing the bias­es and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties that affect cer­tain identity groups.
  • Research con­tains data­bas­es, reports, and con­tex­tu­al infor­ma­tion on death penal­ty his­to­ry and laws.
  • Death Row & Executions con­tains pages on death row con­di­tions and groups of peo­ple on death row, as well as infor­ma­tion on upcom­ing exe­cu­tions and meth­ods of execution.
  • State and Federal Info con­tains links to state pages and data on the fed­er­al and mil­i­tary death penalty systems.
  • Resources con­tains DPI’s high school and col­lege cur­ric­u­la, pub­li­ca­tions & tes­ti­mo­ny, relat­ed web­sites, and Spanish-language pages.

Some pop­u­lar pages, includ­ing DPI’s Execution Database, can be locat­ed through mul­ti­ple menus. The DPI home­page also high­lights direct links to some of our most-vis­it­ed pages, includ­ing the Upcoming Executions cal­en­dar and Fact Sheet.

More changes will arrive in ear­ly 2025. In the mean­time, DPI wel­comes feed­back and ques­tions on the new web­site at dpi@​deathpenaltyinfo.​org.

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