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.
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Discussions With DPIC
Published: Oct 21, 2016
Law professor and author John Bessler joins DPIC executive director Robert Dunham to discuss “Against the Death Penalty,” a book version of Justice Stephen Breyer’s historic dissent in *Glossip v. Gross* in which he questions the constitutionality…
Discussions With DPIC
Published: Sep 14, 2016
Today, DPIC launches a new podcast series, “Discussions With DPIC,” which will feature monthly, unscripted conversations with death penalty experts on a wide variety of topics. The inaugural episode features a conversation between Texas Defender S…
Death Penalty in the U.S.
Published: May 04, 2016
This podcast discusses the history of the death penalty in Arkansas, how it is carried out in the state, and executive and legislative efforts to repeal or reintroduce capital punishment. Arkansas’ use of the death penalty has mirrored the politic…
Death Penalty in the U.S.
Published: Mar 03, 2015
Connecticut had an infamous history as far as the death penalty was concerned. Connecticut is believed to have executed a 12 year-old in 1786 — the youngest person ever executed in the history of the United States. Legal issues have yet to resolv…
Death Penalty in the U.S.
Published: Mar 03, 2015
Illinois had a long history of racial bias in its implementation of the death penalty. Numerous studies and commissions led to the Illinois State Legislature abolishing capital punishment in the state in 2011.…
Death Penalty in the U.S.
Published: Feb 20, 2015
The emptying of death row by Governor Tony Anaya in 1986 set the tone for the erosion of support for the death penalty in New Mexico. As a state with a growing Roman Catholic and non-white population, the shifting demographics became apparent in 2…
Death Penalty in the U.S.
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.
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.…
