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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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    Latest

    Death Penalty in the U.S.

    New York

    Published: Feb 20, 2015

    New York car­ried out more exe­cu­tions than any state oth­er than Virgina between 1608 and 1972. However, in the 1960s, the state leg­is­la­ture began to chip away at what con­sti­tut­ed a cap­i­tal crime. In 2004, the state’s high­est court declared the deat…

    Death Penalty in the U.S.

    New Jersey

    Published: Feb 09, 2015

    In 2006, New Jersey became the first state to leg­isla­tive­ly impose a mora­to­ri­um on exe­cu­tions. This mora­to­ri­um would be the pre­cur­sor to the state’s abo­li­tion of the death penal­ty in 2007.…

    Death Penalty in the U.S.

    Rhode Island

    Published: Feb 09, 2015

    A cap­i­tal mur­der tri­al wrought with prej­u­dice in the 18th cen­tu­ry set the foun­da­tion for a state that would abol­ish the death penal­ty twice in the next 200 years. This abo­li­tion­ist cul­ture led to con­tro­ver­sy when Governor Lincoln Chafee refused to…

    Death Penalty in the U.S.

    District of Columbia

    Published: Oct 31, 2014

    The District of Columbia is a spe­cial area that has over­sight on both the local and fed­er­al lev­els. This unique sta­tus has led to a dynam­ic with the death penal­ty that is not found in any state in the US.…

    Death Penalty in the U.S.

    Massachusetts

    Published: Oct 31, 2014

    Massachusetts has a long his­to­ry of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment ever since it was an English colony in the 17th cen­tu­ry. However, a famous case involv­ing two Italian immi­grants may have been the turn­ing point against cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in Massachusetts.

    Death Penalty in the U.S.

    Iowa

    Published: Oct 24, 2014

    “Uncivilized and impos­si­ble to enforce.” This was the sen­ti­ment of Iowa in 1872 when the state ini­tial­ly abol­ished cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. What fol­lowed was a series of events that led to the rein­state­ment, and sec­ond abo­li­tion of the death penalty.

    Death Penalty in the U.S.

    Vermont

    Published: Oct 24, 2014

    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…

    Death Penalty in the U.S.

    Hawaii

    Published: Oct 10, 2014

    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.…