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title: 'FROM DPIC: Extensive News Coverage of Year End Report'
description: 'National and local media have focused significant attention on DPIC’s recent 2013 Year End Report. Coverage has included pieces in the New York Times…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/from-dpic-extensive-news-coverage-of-year-end-report'
section: news
date: '2013-12-23T14:47:19-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:36:48-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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! National and local media have focused significant attention on DPIC's recent **[2013 Year End Report](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/research/analysis/reports/year-end-reports/the-death-penalty-in-2013-year-end-report)**. Coverage has included pieces in the ***New York Times, Washington Post,** **USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, CNN***, on the wires of the ***Associated Press*** and ***Reuters,*** and in hundreds of other articles and editorials. Papers highlighted the main theme of the report, which showed a continuing decline in the use of the death penalty around the country. The *New York Times* quoted DPIC's Executive Director, Richard Dieter, as commenting that “A societal shift is underway.” The *Associated Press* quoted Dieter saying, "I think the decline begins with the revelations about mistakes in capital cases - that innocent people could get the penalty and almost be executed has shocked the public to the point where death sentences are harder to obtain."

(See, e.g., E. Eckholm, "[In Death Penalty’s Steady Decline, Some Experts See a Societal Shift](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/us/in-death-penaltys-steady-decline-some-experts-see-a-societal-shift.html)," New York Times, December 19, 2013; DPIC posted Dec. 23, 2013). Read **[DPIC's 2013 Year End Report](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/research/analysis/reports/year-end-reports/the-death-penalty-in-2013-year-end-report)** (view a video, infographics, list of sentences, and more). Read **[Editorials](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=189&scid=43)** on the death penalty. See previous [**Year End Reports**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=404&scid=45).