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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.

To listen to any of the podcasts below, simply click the play button. To download the podcast, click the podcast title and then the "Download" button on the episode's page.

To subscribe to our podcast you can:

1. Click here to automatically add it to your iTunes directly.

2. If #1 doesn't work, Copy this link (Right click, copy link location), Open iTunes and under "Advanced" go to "Subscribe to podcast." Put in the URL and click OK. When a new podcast episode comes out, your iTunes will automatically download it.

Latest

Discussions With DPIC

Interview with Clemency filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu

Interview with Clemency filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu

Published: Aug 27, 2019

Writer/​director Chinonye Chukwu speaks with DPIC Senior Director of Research and Special Projects Ngozi Ndulue about her award-win­ning new film, Clemency. Chukwu dis­cuss­es her inspi­ra­tion for the sto­ry, the years-long process of research …

Discussions With DPIC

Interview with Trial By Fire Director Edward Zwick

Interview with Trial By Fire Director Edward Zwick

Published: May 17, 2019

Emmy- and Oscar-win­ner Edward Zwick speaks about his lat­est film, Trial By Fire, in the lat­est episode of Discussions with DPIC. Zwick pro­duced and direct­ed Trial By Fire, which tells …

Discussions With DPIC

The Effect of Race on Sentencing Decisions in Washington

The Effect of Race on Sentencing Decisions in Washington

Published: Mar 14, 2019

In the lat­est episode of Discussions with DPIC, Dr. Katherine Beckett (pic­tured, left) and Dr. Heather Evans (pic­tured, right), authors of ​“The Role of Race in Washington State Ca…

Discussions With DPIC

Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain
Secrecy and the Death Penalty in the United States

Published: Feb 08, 2019

Robin Konrad, for­mer DPIC Director of Research and Special Projects, joins Executive Director Robert Dunham and cur­rent Director of Research and Special Projects Ngozi Ndulue to dis­cuss DPIC’s November 2018 report, Behind the Curtain: Secrecy and …

Discussions With DPIC

Year End Report 2018

Year End Report 2018

Published: Dec 21, 2018

Members of the DPIC staff dis­cuss key themes from the 2018 Year End Report in the lat­est episode of Discussions with DPIC. Robert Dunham, Ngozi Ndulue, and Anne Holsinger delve into the major death-penal­ty trends and news items of the year, includ…

Discussions With DPIC

The New Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty and Human Dignity

The New Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty and Human Dignity
A Conversation with Cardinal Blase Cupich

Published: Dec 01, 2018

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the ninth Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, speaks with DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham about the impli­ca­tions of the new Catholic Catechism pro­mul­gat­ed by Pope Francis, which deemed the death penal­ty ​“inad­mis­si­ble…