Publications & Testimony

Testimony and Statements on the Death Penalty

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

Religious Views: Over 150 Catholic Theologians Call for Repeal of the Death Penalty (September 27, 2011)
Power Over Life and Death - The Power to Save a Life (January 15, 2005)
Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice (November 2000)
The Challenge of Holiness: A Sermon on the Death Penalty (January 10, 2000)
General Assembly of the Texas Conference of Churches - Resolution Opposing the Death Penalty (February 24, 1998)
Statement by Catholic Bishops of Texas on Capital Punishment (October 20, 1997)
Catholic Church Expresses Strong Opposition to Capital Punishment in Catechism (September 9, 1997)
Catholic Bishops of Iowa Issue Statement on Death Penalty (February 4, 1998)
To End the Death Penalty: A Report of the National Jewish/Catholic Consultation
Transcript of Dr. Pat Robertson’s Speech on the Role of Religion and the Death Penalty at The College of William and Mary
Collection of Official Catholic Statements on the Death Penalty (1980)

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

FROM ADVOCACY GROUPS

Florida League of Women Voters Calls for Halt to Executions (May 28, 2007)
Victims Organizations Issue Joint Statement for National Victims' Rights Week (April 19, 2007)

FROM JUDGES, LEGISLATORS, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

Resolution Supporting Repeal of the Death Penalty, National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (August 11, 2016)
Resolution Supporting Abolition of the Death Penalty, Natl. Assoc. of Black Psychologists (2012)
The Road to Justice and Peace by New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak (February 1, 2009)
Statement On The Federal Death Penalty System by Senator Feingold (June 7, 2001)
Statement on the Need for a Federal Moratorium on the Death Penalty Senator Feingold (October 29, 2000)
Death Penalty: The Torah and Today (August 23, 2000)
Press Release for Senator Russ Feingold’s Introduction of Senate’s First Death Penalty Moratorium Bill (April 20, 2000)
Amnesty International Southern Regional Conference: Orlando, Florida Remarks by Former Florida Chief Justice Gerald Kogan (October 23, 1999)
American Bar Association Resolution on the Death Penalty (February 3, 1997)

Latest

Studies

Sep 20, 2018

DEATH-ROW CENSUS: Number of Prisoners Facing Active Death Sentences in U.S. Drops Below 2,500

For the first time in more than a quarter century, fewer than 2,500 prisoners across the United States now face active death sentences. According to the latest Death Row USA national census by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), released in early …

Law Reviews

Sep 19, 2018

Law Review: Article Tracks 400 Years of America’s “Inglorious Experience” With the Death Penalty

A landmark article in the Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy provides a “compilation of milestones in the American experience with capital punishment,” tracking more than 400 years of the “inglorious experience with capital p…

Studies

Sep 13, 2018

New DPIC Podcast: Researcher Discusses Implications of Link Between Economic Threats and Support for Death Penalty

In the latest episode of our Discussions with DPIC podcast, Keelah Williams (pictured), assistant professor of psychology at Hamilton College in New York, joins DPIC executive director Robert Dunham to discuss the implic…

Books

Sep 07, 2018

Filming Underway for Movie Adaptation of ‘Just Mercy’

Filming for the movie adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s best-selling book, Just Mercy, began August …

Books

Sep 06, 2018

BOOK: Slavery and the Death Penalty

“It is widely recognized that capital punishment in the United States of America continues to be imbued with the legacy of slavery” and, to end it, American death-penalty abolitionists “should draw on the radicalism of [anti-slavery] abolitionists…

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