The lat­est edi­tion of the Death Penalty Information Center’s series of pod­casts, DPIC on the Issues, is now avail­able for lis­ten­ing or down­load­ing. This pod­cast — the 17th in the series — dis­cuss­es inter­na­tion­al views on the death penal­ty and how those views might affect cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the United States. The pod­cast includes dis­cus­sions about the role of inter­na­tion­al phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies in lethal injec­tions being car­ried out in the United States, and the con­sid­er­a­tion of inter­na­tion­al opin­ion by the U.S. Supreme Court in rul­ings relat­ed to the death penal­ty. Click here to lis­ten to this lat­est pod­cast.

Generally, these pod­casts offer con­cise, infor­ma­tive dis­cus­sions of impor­tant death penal­ty issues. Other recent episodes have focused on Death Row and the U.S. Supreme Court​’s impact on the death penal­ty. You can 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 death penal­ty issues. Many of our pod­casts are avail­able on our iPhone App as well.

(DPIC Podcast #17: International Death Penalty, post­ed December 2, 2011). If you have sug­ges­tions for top­ics you would like to see addressed in future pod­casts, con­tact us at dpic@​deathpenaltyinfo.​org. See International.

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