DPIC Special Reports

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.