DPI Podcasts

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Discussions With DPIC

Rethinking Public Safety, A Conversation with Executive Director of Fair and Just Prosecution, Miriam Krinsky

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 crim­i­nal legal…

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Capital Defense Lawyer Marc Bookman Discusses His New Book and the Systemic Defects that Have Sent the Death Penalty into A Descending Spiral’

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 in 12

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Rethinking Public Safety: A Conversation with Former Nevada Prison Doctor, Dr. Karen Gedney

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 a pre­scrip­tion for…

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Rethinking Public Safety: A Conversation with Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro

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 Director of Research and Special…

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Ethical-Design Advocate Raphael Sperry on Why the American Institute of Architects Banned Members From Designing Death Chambers

Published: Mar 31, 2021

In the March 31, 2021 pod­cast episode of Discussions with DPIC, man­ag­ing direc­tor of DPIC, Anne Holsinger, and Raphael Sperry, pres­i­dent of Architects/​Designers/​Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), dis­cuss the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) new ethics pol­i­cy pro­hibit­ing mem­bers from design­ing exe­cu­tion cham­bers and death-row soli­tary con­fine­ment cells. Architects have been com­plic­it in human rights abuse by designing…

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Carine Williams of the Innocence Project Discusses Death Penalty, Innocence, and the Function of Freedom’

Published: Mar 09, 2021

In the March 2021 edi­tion of Discussions with DPIC, Death Penalty Information Center Senior Director of Research and Special Projects Ngozi Ndulue is joined by Carine Williams — the Chief Program Strategy Officer at the Innocence Project — for a con­ver­sa­tion about inno­cence, the death penal­ty, and the func­tion of free­dom.” Reflecting on the gross mis­car­riage of jus­tice exhib­it­ed in wrong­ful con­vic­tions and exon­er­a­tions, Williams stress­es two…

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Injustice in Virginia: The Case of the Martinsville 7

Published: Jan 21, 2021

In the January 2021 episode of Discussions With DPIC, Rudolph McCollum and Liz Ryan join DPIC Managing Director Anne Holsinger for a con­ver­sa­tion about their efforts to obtain posthu­mous par­dons for the Martinsville 7,” sev­en Black men who were exe­cut­ed in Virginia for the alleged rape of a white woman in 1949. McCollum, a for­mer may­or of Richmond, is the nephew of two of the exe­cut­ed men and Ryan is the pres­i­dent and CEO of the Youth First…

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Anesthesiologist Dr. Joel Zivot on What Prisoner Autopsies Tell Us About Lethal Injection

Published: Dec 09, 2020

In the December 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, anes­the­si­ol­o­gist Dr. Joel Zivot from Emory University Hospital speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about his dis­cov­er­ies from the autop­sies of more than 200 exe­cut­ed pris­on­ers that shat­tered the myth that death by lethal injec­tion was a humane and peace­ful process. Dr. Zivot also lec­tures and writes on issues relat­ed to end of life care and physi­cian-assist­ed death, and he and Dunham also…

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Gretchen Engel on the Racist Roots Report from the Center for Death Penalty Litigation

Published: Nov 25, 2020

In the November 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Gretchen Engel (pic­tured), Executive Director of North Carolina’s Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL), joins Ngozi Ndulue, Senior Director of Research and Special Projects at DPIC, for a dis­cus­sion of their orga­ni­za­tions’ recent reports on race and the death penal­ty. This fall, DPIC released Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty. Less than a month later,…

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Former Illinois Governor George Ryan on Commuting Death Row and His Journey from Death-Penalty Supporter to Abolitionist

Published: Oct 15, 2020

In the October 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, for­mer Illinois Governor George Ryan speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about the events that per­suad­ed him to com­mute the death sen­tences of all 167 death-row pris­on­ers in Illinois in 2003. Ryan and Dunham delve into the Governor’s jour­ney from death-penal­ty sup­port­er as an Illinois state leg­is­la­tor to death-penal­ty oppo­nent as Illinois gov­er­nor, and dis­cuss his new book, co-authored…