Three new items have been added to DPIC’s Web site, includ­ing a sum­ma­ry of a new report from The Sentencing Project, the com­plete results of a recent North Carolina poll, and an updat­ed ​“Special Resources from DPIC” Web page:

1. A sum­ma­ry of impor­tant facts from The Sentencing Project’s new report: ​“The Meaning of ​‘Life’: Long Prison Sentences in Context.” For exam­ple, the report notes that the use of life-with­out-parole sen­tences has expand­ed sig­nif­i­cant­ly – of the lif­ers in prison, one in four (26.3%) is serv­ing a sen­tence of life with­out parole, hav­ing increased from one in six (17.8%) in 1992. Read DPIC’s sum­ma­ry of the report.

2. The com­plete report of a recent pub­lic opin­ion poll (see pre­vi­ous What’s New item) in North Carolina. In par­tic­u­lar, the poll found that by a mar­gin of more than two-to-one (63% to 28%), state res­i­dents favor a two-year sus­pen­sion of exe­cu­tions. See the North Carolina poll (pdf).

3. A new­ly revised page of Special Resources from DPIC to help in your research of the death penalty.

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