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, 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,” New York Times, December 19, 2013; DPIC post­ed Dec. 23, 2013). Read DPIC’s 2013 Year End Report (view a video, info­graph­ics, list of sen­tences, and more). Read Editorials on the death penal­ty. See pre­vi­ous Year End Reports.

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