DPIC Special Reports
Dec 08, 2017
Stayed by Arkansas Supreme Court based on pending Supreme Court decision in McWilliams v. 4/17/17Don Davis10/12/903/6/9227WhiteWhiteStayed by Arkansas Supreme Court based on pending Supreme Court decision in McWilliams v.
DPIC Special Reports
Jun 01, 2017
The Most Common Causes of Wrongful Death Penalty Convictions: Official Misconduct and Perjury or False Accusation. But the most recent data from the National Registry of Exonerations points to two factors as the most overwhelmingly prevalent causes of wrongful convictions in death penalty cases: official misconduct and perjury or false accusation.…
DPIC Special Reports
Mar 23, 2017
On February 27, 2017, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed orders for an unprecedented eight executions to be carried out over a period of eleven days in April. We looked into this and found that, since states resumed executions in the 1970s, no state has ever executed eight prisoners in eleven days. Only four states have carried out multiple…
