DPIC Special Reports
Feb 18, 2021
In 1993, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights conducted hearings on what was then a relatively unknown question: How significant was the risk that innocent people were being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in the United States. That research — undertaken before the availability of the internet…
DPIC Special Reports
Oct 23, 2020
The use or threat of the death penalty was a factor in more than 13% of exonerations across the United States in 2019 and nearly 95% of those cases involved some form of major misconduct, a Death Penalty Information Center analysis of data from the National Registry of Exonerations has revealed. A September 2020 report by the National Registry of…
DPIC Special Reports
Jul 02, 2020
At the midpoint of 2020, there had been 13 new death sentences, imposed in seven states, and six executions carried out by five historically high-execution states.
DPIC Special Reports
Jun 22, 2020
Nearly one third of the prisoners whose extended incarcerations on death row violate their human rights are facing execution in California.
DPIC Special Reports
Aug 30, 2019
In 2018, Texas executed more prisoners than the rest of the United States combined and, if most of the scheduled executions go through, could do so again in 2019.
