DPIC In-Depth Reports
Oct 20, 2009
Smart on Crime is a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center that explores the prospect of saving states hundreds of millions of dollars by ending the death penalty. The report also serves to release a national poll of police chiefs in which they rank the death penalty at the bottom of their priorities for achieving a safer society.…
DPIC In-Depth Reports
Jun 09, 2007
Most Americans believe that innocent people have already been executed, that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, and that a moratorium should be placed on all executions. Even among those who support the death penalty and believe they would be qualified to serve on a capital jury, the risk of convicting or executing the innocent would…
DPIC In-Depth Reports
Oct 18, 2005
Blind Justice, the most recent report to be released by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), is the first to focus on the problems of the death penalty from the perspective of jurors. While jurors have always occupied an esteemed position in the broader criminal justice system in the United States, in capital cases the responsibility of…
DPIC In-Depth Reports
Sep 01, 2004
This report catalogs the emergence of innocence as the most important issue in the long-simmering death penalty debate. The steady evolution of this issue since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 has been accelerated in recent years by the development of DNA technology, the new gold standard of forensic investigation. This evidence has…
DPIC In-Depth Reports
Jun 04, 1998
The results of two new studies which underscore the continuing injustice of racism in the application of the death penalty are being released through this report. Unfortunately, the days of racial bias in the death penalty are not a remnant of the past. Two of the country’s foremost researchers on race and capital punishment, law professor David…
