Publications & Testimony

The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2003 Year End Report fea­tures a series of sig­nif­i­cant death penal­ty devel­op­ments from the past year,…

Race Plays Powerful Role in Washington State Death Penalty…

Texas Report Finds Noncompliance With State Defense…

Kansas Study Concludes Death Penalty is Costly…

Nobel Laureates Oppose Death Penalty, Decry Execution of Juvenile…

North Carolina Man Is Sixth in State to be Spared Under New Law on Mental…

Former Death Row Inmate Awarded $2.2 Million Wrongful Conviction…

Capital pun­ish­ment was used dur­ing the Spanish regime. The first ver­i­fied exe­cu­tions took place in 1514, when four slaves were hanged for upris­ing. The first Inquisition court in the west­ern hemi­sphere was estab­lished in San Juan in…

Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation Releases Juvenile…

Four Executions in Texas and Georgia Stayed, Clemency Recommended for Foreign National in Oklahoma Four stays were grant­ed for exe­cu­tions that were sched­uled to take place this week in Texas and Georgia, and Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board unan­i­mous­ly rec­om­mend­ed clemen­cy for a for­eign nation­al fac­ing exe­cu­tion in January 2004. In Texas, courts ordered three stays of exe­cu­tion. Two of the cas­es involved chal­lenges to the use of pan­curo­ni­um bro­mide as part of the…