FROM DPIC
For testimony by Executive Director Robert Dunham and former Executive Director Richard C. Dieter, please visit our page DPIC Testimony.
FROM RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
FROM ADVOCACY GROUPS
FROM JUDGES, LEGISLATORS, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Books
May 01, 2017
Walter Ogrod was convicted and sentenced to death in Philadelphia in 1996 for the 1988 murder of a 4-year-old girl, whose body was found in a discarded television box. Ogrod, who is developmentally disabled, has long maintained his innocence, but …
Studies
Apr 27, 2017
The conditions in which prisoners on Texas’ death row are confined are “harsh and inhumane,” violate international human rights norms, and amount to “a severe and relentless act of torture,” according to a new study by the Univers…
Studies
Apr 26, 2017
After spending more than a year studying Oklahoma’s capital punishment practices, the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission has unanimously recommended that …
Studies
Apr 03, 2017
A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic c…
Studies
Mar 14, 2017
A study published in The Yale Law Journal provides new evidence that, as public opinion continues to shift away from the death penalty, juries empaneled in capital cases may become even less representative of the community and even more p…
