DPIC is pleased to provide podcasts that discuss a wide variety of issues relating to the death penalty.
Our podcasts cover three different types of death penalty issues.
DPIC's current monthly podcast series is called "Discussions With DPIC." We speak with death penalty experts about timely death penalty developments in the news.
The
"On the Issues" podcast series explores different factual, legal, and
ethical topics relating to capital punishment.
A second series of podcasts details the history of capital punishment
in each state.
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Vermont has a long history of sparse use of capital punishment and saw a steady decline in the scope of crimes that were punishable by death throughout the years. The death penalty was rendered invalid in 1972 by Furman v. Georgia and has never be…
In the late 19th century, as Hawaii became a center of agricultural production, the immigrants who were brought to the islands in a form of indentured servitude bore the brunt of the arbitrariness of the judicial system in annexed Hawaii.…
Alaska was under territorial and colonial rule from the 18th century through 1959, when it became a state. This long history of outside influence, in addition to several other unique aspects of Alaska, have played an important role in the attitude…
North Dakota’s residents signed a petition in 1915 about the “barbarous” and “ineffective”. That very year, the North Dakota legislature passed a bill repealing the death penalty and it has remained off the books ever since.…
Minnesota became the 4th state to abolish the death penalty after a short history of capital punishment filled with questions about the fairness of a murder trial as well as the largest mass hanging in US history.…
A series of botched hangings led to the state of Maine reexamining its use of the death penalty. The state abolished the death penalty in 1876, but it was reinstated for a few years after a series of “cold-blooded murders”. The state abolished the…