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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In 2016, both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court struck down Florida’s death-sentencing statute. Since then, the Florida courts and legislature have been figuring out how to apply those decisions to the nearly 400 condemned priso…
Robin Konrad, DPIC’s Director of Research and Special Projects, interviews University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett about his new book End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice. Professor Garrett resear…
Death penalty proponents have long asserted that capital punishment advances public safety by deterring murders, and this, they say, is especially true when it comes to protecting police officers. The Death Penalty Information Center recently conduct…
Ohio has not carried out an execution since the botched execution of Dennis McGuire in January 2014, but is scheduled to resume executions on July 26, 2017. In the past several years, the State has revised its lethal-injection protocol and has cre…
Race, Future Dangerousness, and the Death Penalty, with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Christina Swarns
Published: Jun 28, 2017
Christina Swarns, litigation director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, speaks with DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham about the case of Texas death-row prisoner Duane Buck and the impact of racial bias on determinations of future …
Scott Braden and Julie Vandiver discuss Arkansas’s April 2017 executions
Published: May 30, 2017
In April 2017, Arkansas scheduled a record eight executions in eleven days. Four ultimately were stayed, and four were carried out. DPIC staff members Robin Konrad and Anne Holsinger interview Scott Braden and Julie Vandiver, two of the lawyers wh…
DPIC staff members Robert Dunham, Robin Konrad, and Anne Holsinger explain Arkansas’ plan to execute seven prisoners over an 11-day period beginning April 17. They discuss the state’s reasons for the condensed execution schedule, current litigatio…
In observance of Women’s History Month, DPIC staff members Anne Holsinger and Robin Konrad interview Mary Atwell, Ph.D., one of the nation’s foremost experts on women on death row. Dr. Atwell is Professor Emerita of Criminal Justice at Radford Uni…