DPIC Year-End Reports
Dec 14, 2006
The Death Penalty in 2006: Year End Report
The number of death sentences and the size of death row are also decreasing.
DPIC Reports
Below are reports released by the Death Penalty Information Center since its inception, covering subjects such as race, innocence, politicization, costs of the death penalty, and more. When opening a report, please allow the report page to load fully before selecting links to sections or footnotes. Most of these reports are also available in printed form from DPIC. For a copy of one of these reports, e-mail DPIC. For bulk orders, please download our Resource Order Form.
Reports are separated into Year End Reports, In-Depth Reports, and Special Reports. In-Depth Reports are DPIC's signature long, thorough reports on major death-penalty issues. These include "The 2% Death Penalty," examining geographic arbitrariness in capital punishment, and "Behind the Curtain," covering secrecy in the death penalty system. Special Reports are shorter, and typically address a specific event or question. These include DPIC's explanation of the 2017 spate of executions that were scheduled in Arkansas, and our analysis of the largest number of executions performed on a single day.
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DPIC Year-End Reports
Dec 15, 2005
The Death Penalty in 2005: Year End Report
The year 2005 may be remembered as the year that life without parole became an acceptable alternative to the death penalty in the U.S. The declining use of the death penalty in 2005 extended the steady drop in death sentences and in the size of the death row in recent years. The projection for 2005 is 96 death sentences (based on data from 3⁄4 of…
DPIC In-Depth Reports
Oct 18, 2005
Blind Justice: Juries Deciding Life and Death With Only Half the Truth
Blind Justice, the most recent report to be released by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), is the first to focus on the problems of the death penalty from the perspective of jurors. While jurors have always occupied an esteemed position in the broader criminal justice system in the United States, in capital cases the responsibility of…
DPIC Year-End Reports
Dec 15, 2004
The Death Penalty in 2004: Year End Report
Whether examining death sentences, executions, the size of death row or public support, capital punishment numbers have dropped in a way not seen in over 30 years. In Texas, Houston‘s Police Chief, Harold Hurtt, called for a moratorium on executions on cases from his county, where the police crime lab has been declared unreliable: “I think it…
DPIC In-Depth Reports
Sep 01, 2004
Innocence and the Crisis in the American Death Penalty
This report catalogs the emergence of innocence as the most important issue in the long-simmering death penalty debate. The steady evolution of this issue since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 has been accelerated in recent years by the development of DNA technology, the new gold standard of forensic investigation. This evidence has…
