The lat­est edi­tion of the Death Penalty Information Center’s series of pod­casts, DPIC on the Issues, is now avail­able. This pod­cast address­es ques­tions about the U.S. Supreme Court’s role in over­see­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of the death penal­ty. The pod­cast dis­cuss­es the kinds of cas­es the Court takes on review and briefly describes a few key Supreme Court deci­sions on the death penal­ty, includ­ing Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia. The Supreme Court’s role in the recent lim­i­ta­tions on apply­ing the death penal­ty, such as the ban on exe­cut­ing juve­nile offend­ers and those with intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ties, is also dis­cussed. Click here to lis­ten to this lat­est pod­cast, the 15th in DPIC’s series. Generally, the series offers brief, infor­ma­tive dis­cus­sions of impor­tant death penal­ty issues. Other recent episodes include dis­cus­sions on the Legal Process and on Mental Illness. You can sub­scribe to receive auto­mat­ic updates through iTunes when new episodes are post­ed and receive access to all pre­vi­ous episodes. Other audio and video resources, along with all of DPIC’s pod­casts, can be found on our Multimedia page.

DPIC’s pod­casts may be use­ful for stu­dents research­ing this issue. Many of our pod­casts are avail­able on our iPhone App as well.

(DPIC, post­ed August 8, 2011). If you have sug­ges­tions for top­ics you would like to see addressed in future pod­casts, con­tact us at dpic@​deathpenaltyinfo.​org. See also Supreme Court and Student Resources.

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