DPI Podcasts
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12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
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 and immersion that helped her shape the narrative, and her hopes for how this film will be received. Clemency stars Alfre Woodard as death-row prison warden Bernadine Williams and Aldis Hodge as death-row prisoner Anthony Woods. The film focuses on Bernadine…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
Rep. Renny Cushing on Empowering Crime Survivors and Repealing New Hampshire’s Death Penalty
Published: Jul 03, 2019
In the latest episode of Discussions with DPIC, New Hampshire State Representative Renny Cushing talks with DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham about 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 recent repeal of the death penalty. Cushing — whose father and brother-in-law were killed in separate incidents — discusses his ongoing efforts to empower crime survivors and his role working to…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
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 the story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted and sentence to death in 1992 for the alleged arson homicide of his three children. Arson investigators who testified against him used flawed methods, and a jailhouse informant received undisclosed incentives from prosecutors in exchange for his testimony…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
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 Capital Sentencing: 1981 – 2014,” discuss their research and its impact on the Washington Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the state’s death penalty. Their study was heavily cited by the court in State v. Gregory, the October 2018 decision that found Washington’s death penalty violated the state constitution because…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
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 the Death Penalty in the United States. Konrad, the lead author of the report, gives an overview of the recent expansion of secrecy in the use of the death penalty. She explains the ubiquity of secrecy policies, saying “everybody has some type of…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
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, including the “extended trend” of generational lows in death sentencing and executions, election results that indicate the decline will likely continue, and the possible impact of Pope Francis’s change to Catholic teaching on capital punishment. They explore…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
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” in all cases and committed the Church to working to abolish capital punishment in the United States and worldwide. Saying “human dignity is at center of all we say and do,” Cardinal Cupich explains how the Church’s commitment to action on the death…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
Professor Bharat Malkani Explores the Relationship Between Slavery and Slavery-Abolition Strategies and the Modern U.S. Death Penalty
Published: Oct 25, 2018
Bharat Malkani, senior lecturer in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and author of the 2018 book Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition, speaks with DPIC’s executive director Robert Dunham and Ngozi Ndulue, DPIC’s Director of Research and Special Projects, about the historical links between slavery, lynching, Jim Crow and the death penalty and the lessons modern opponents of capital punishment can learn from the strategies employed by…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
Professor Keelah Williams Explains Research Linking “Resource Scarcity” to Support for the Death Penalty
Published: Sep 07, 2018
Keelah Williams, assistant professor of psychology at Hamilton College in New York, speaks with DPIC executive director Robert Dunham about her research on the death penalty and resource scarcity — a concept from evolutionary psychology that studies how people react to social conditions in an environment with limited resources. Williams and a team of researchers from Arizona State University, where she earned her Ph.D., examined the relationship between the actual and perceived scarcity of…
12:01 The Death Penalty in Context
Authors of Death-Penalty Study Discuss Tennessee’s “Death Penalty Lottery”
Published: Aug 01, 2018
H.E. Miller, Jr. and Bradley MacLean, authors of a recent study on the application of Tennessee’s death penalty (https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/study-the-death-penalty-in-tennessee-is-a-cruel-lottery), join DPIC’s Anne Holsinger to discuss the findings from their article, Tennessee’s Death Penalty Lottery. Miller and MacLean examined whether death sentences and executions in Tennessee are influenced by arbitrary factors like geography, race, and quality of representation. The application of…