For near­ly 35 years, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) has served the pub­lic, the media, pol­i­cy­mak­ers, attor­neys, and edu­ca­tors with data and analy­sis on issues con­cern­ing cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment and the peo­ple it affects. 

DPI is entire­ly sup­port­ed by the gen­eros­i­ty of foun­da­tions and indi­vid­ual donors, like you. 

If our work is valu­able to you, please con­sid­er mak­ing a tax-deductible dona­tion here or set­ting up a recur­ring month­ly dona­tion via PayPal.

In addi­tion to our annu­al report (forth­com­ing December 19), DPI pub­lished 3 oth­er in-depth reports on the his­to­ry and use of the death penal­ty this year:

Fool’s Gold: How the Federal Death Penalty Has Perpetuated Racially Discriminatory Practices Throughout History,

Lethal Election: How the U.S. Electoral Process Increases the Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty,

Broken Promises: How a History of Racial Violence and Bias Shaped Ohio’s Death Penalty

Your support makes the following possible: 

Improvements to our web­site: Our updat­ed web­site fea­tures a new home­page and nav­i­ga­tion bar for an improved user experience. 

Responses to infor­ma­tion requests: DPI reg­u­lar­ly receives and responds to inquiries from mem­bers of the pub­lic, lawyers, activists, stu­dents, and jour­nal­ists. DPI has par­tic­i­pat­ed in more than 100 media inter­views this year, pro­vid­ing impor­tant data, his­to­ry, and con­text for break­ing news and events. 

Up-to-date, accu­rate data: DPI’s con­tin­u­ous­ly updat­ed web­site pro­vides accu­rate and time­ly infor­ma­tion on death penal­ty data and leg­is­la­tion. For exam­ple, our Death Penalty Census Death Penalty Census doc­u­ments 9,900 death sen­tences, span­ning the entire­ty of the mod­ern death penalty era. 

Daily ​“What’s News?” arti­cles: DPI cov­ers cur­rent news and devel­op­ments relat­ed to the death penalty. 

Monthly pod­casts: Discussions with DPI fea­tures dis­cus­sions with experts and com­men­ta­tors about time­ly death penal­ty issues in the news. 

Annual reports: DPI’s annu­al Year End Report is the defin­i­tive source of the year’s data, infor­ma­tion, trends, and analy­sis about use of the death penal­ty (forth­com­ing December 19). 

Letter from the Director 

Thank you for your gen­eros­i­ty on Giving Tuesday!
 
At DPI, our com­mit­ment is to truth and accu­ra­cy. There is no oth­er nation­al orga­ni­za­tion that does what we do, and we often hear how essen­tial our work is to jour­nal­ists, law­mak­ers, and vot­ers. As a non-par­ti­san orga­ni­za­tion, our pri­ma­ry goal is to pro­vide time­ly and trust­wor­thy infor­ma­tion about use of the death penal­ty. As a non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion, we rely entire­ly on gen­er­ous sup­port­ers to pow­er our work. If you val­ue our unique con­tri­bu­tions, please invest in DPI and con­sid­er mak­ing a tax-deductible dona­tion today.

With grat­i­tude,

Robin M. Maher, DPI Executive Director

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