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DPIC Podcasts

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

    On the Issues

    Representation

    Published: Apr 02, 2010

    Covers the impor­tance of high-qual­i­ty rep­re­sen­ta­tion and pro­vides exam­ples of inad­e­quate rep­re­sen­ta­tion in cap­i­tal cas­es includ­ing sta­tis­tics and indi­vid­ual cas­es. Featured music: ​“Every Waking Hour” by Robin Grey and ​“Death of Lovers” by John Hal…

    On the Issues

    Race

    Published: Jan 13, 2010

    Covers issues of race in the death penal­ty, such as whether race plays a role in crim­i­nal sen­tenc­ing, analy­sis of race sta­tis­tics in the jus­tice sys­tem and mea­sures intend­ed to pre­vent racial fac­tors in sen­tenc­ing. Featured music: ​“Every Waking Ho…

    On the Issues

    Innocence

    Published: Aug 31, 2009

    Covers issues of inno­cence in the death penal­ty, such as the pos­si­bil­i­ty of inno­cent peo­ple sen­tenced to death, and whether the judi­cial process pre­vents wrong­ful exe­cu­tion. Featured music: ​“Every Waking Hour” by Robin Grey and ​“Death of Lovers” b…

    On the Issues

    Deterrence

    Published: Jul 08, 2009

    Covers issues of deter­rence, includ­ing views of police and crim­i­nol­o­gists about the deter­rent effect of exe­cu­tions and sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis of deter­rence effects. Featured music: ​“Every Waking Hour” by Robin Grey and ​“Death of Lovers” by John Hall…

    On the Issues

    Cost

    Published: Jun 22, 2009

    Covers issues of cost in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, such as explain­ing the cost of a death penal­ty sen­tence ver­sus life with­out parole, and the fac­tors that influ­ence the cost of exe­cu­tion. Featured music: ​“Every Waking Hour” by Robin Grey and “…

    On the Issues

    Clemency

    Published: May 13, 2009

    Covers issues such as how clemen­cy works in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, includ­ing who grants clemen­cy, why clemen­cy is grant­ed, and how often it occurs. Featured music: ​“Hopscotch” by Orb Gettarr and ​“Death of Lovers” by John Hall, both licensed …

    On the Issues

    Arbitrariness

    Published: Apr 17, 2009

    Covers issues such as geo­graph­ic and racial dis­par­i­ties in death penal­ty sen­tenc­ing, as well as explor­ing why peo­ple get dif­fer­ent sen­tences for sim­i­lar crimes. Featured music: ​“Hopscotch” by Orb Gettarr and ​“Death of Lovers” by John Hall, both li…