DPI Podcasts

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Mar 30, 2022

New Hampshire State Representative Renny Cushing passed away ear­li­er this month. In mem­o­ry of Cushing’s life and lega­cy, DPIC is reis­su­ing the June 2019 pod­cast in which Cushing spoke with DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham. Cushing described the life-alter­ing expe­ri­ence of hav­ing a close fam­i­ly mem­ber mur­dered and his jour­ney from being a mur­der-fam­i­­ly sur­vivor to spear­head­ing New Hampshire’s repeal of the…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Feb 25, 2022

In the February 2022 episode of Discussions with DPIC, fed­er­al pub­lic defend­er, Amanda Bass (pic­tured, right) and Justice for Julius advo­cate Cece Jones-Davis (pic­tured, left) speak with Death Penalty Information Center Managing Director Anne Holsinger about the ques­tion­able con­vic­tion and near exe­cu­tion of for­mer Oklahoma death-row pris­on­er, Julius Jones. They dis­cuss how incompetent…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Jan 12, 2022

In the January 2022 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Contra Costa County, California District Attorney Diana Becton, speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about the rise in reform pros­e­cu­tors across the coun­try, the inher­ent flaws in cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment that leads her to work along­side oth­er reform pros­e­cu­tors to end the death penal­ty, and her efforts as dis­trict attor­ney to bring fair­ness and equi­ty to the…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Dec 02, 2021

In the December 2021 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Death Penalty Information Center Deputy Director Ngozi Ndulue inter­views State Representative Jean Schmidt about her work as a pri­ma­ry spon­sor of a bill in the Ohio House of Representatives that would abol­ish cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the state. A long-time Republican elect­ed offi­cial, Rep. Schmidt also served in the U.S. House of Representatives for ten years. She avid­ly sup­port­ed the death penal­ty ear­ly in her…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Nov 08, 2021

In the November 2021 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Daniel Chen, coun­sel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, speaks with DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham about the Supreme Court case Ramirez v. Collier and death-row pris­on­ers’ rights to reli­gious free­dom. John Ramirez has chal­lenged Texas’ restric­tions on audi­ble prayer and phys­i­cal touch by his spir­i­tu­al advi­sor dur­ing his exe­cu­tion. Allowing such pas­toral com­fort in the execution…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Sep 29, 2021

In the September 2021 episode of Discussions With DPIC, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill polit­i­cal sci­en­tist Frank Baumgartner (pic­tured), one of the nation’s lead­ing aca­d­e­m­ic author­i­ties on the death penal­ty, joins Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham to dis­cuss what research has shown about the impact of race, gen­der, and geog­ra­phy in cap­i­tal cas­es and the cur­rent his­tor­i­cal­ly low lev­el of pub­lic support for…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Aug 26, 2021

In the third episode of the Discussions with DPIC podcast’s Rethinking Public Safety series, Miriam Krinsky speaks with DPIC Senior Director of Research and Special Projects Ngozi Ndulue about her expe­ri­ences as a for­mer fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor and the Executive Director of Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), a net­work of elect­ed pros­e­cu­tors devot­ed to pro­mot­ing fair­ness, equi­ty, com­pas­sion, and fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty in the…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Jul 26, 2021

The July 2021 episode of Discussions with DPIC fea­tures a con­ver­sa­tion between DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham and Marc Bookman, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation (ACCR), regard­ing his crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed new book, A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Jun 01, 2021

In the sec­ond episode of DPIC’s Rethinking Public Safety series, DPIC Managing Director Anne Holsinger inter­views Dr. Karen Gedney about her 30-year career as a doc­tor in the Nevada prison sys­tem. Dr. Gedney speaks about how prison con­di­tions affect the phys­i­cal and men­tal health of pris­on­ers, how prison bureau­cra­cy deter­mines the qual­i­ty of care that pris­on­ers receive, and how exe­cu­tions take a toll on prison staff. She tells the sto­ry of her refusal to write…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Apr 29, 2021

The April 2021 episode of Discussions with DPIC fea­tures the first episode of DPIC’s new pod­cast series, Rethinking Public Safety. These episodes will fea­ture inter­views with pub­lic safe­ty offi­cials, dis­cussing the evo­lu­tion of their views on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment and how their expe­ri­ences in var­i­ous pub­lic safe­ty fields influ­enced their think­ing. The first episode is a con­ver­sa­tion between for­mer Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro and DPIC Senior…