Publications & Testimony

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Jan 01, 2001

DPIC: Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment

The Death Penalty Information Center has assem­bled the fol­low­ing press mate­ri­als and Web links to pro­vide easy access to infor­ma­tion regard­ing the work of the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment, a blue-rib­bon pan­el that has recent­ly com­plet­ed the nation’s most com­pre­hen­sive state review of the death penal­ty. The Commission’s find­ings and rec­om­men­da­tions will sure­ly cap­ture the atten­tion of law­mak­ers and legal experts through­out the nation who are watch­ing close­ly to track the impact of…

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Dec 31, 2000

A State of Denial: Texas Justice and the Death Penalty

The nation is embroiled in a debate over the death penal­ty. Each day brings fresh accounts of racial bias, incom­pe­tent coun­sel, and mis­con­duct com­mit­ted by police offi­cers or pros­e­cu­tors in cap­i­tal cas­es. The pub­lic increas­ing­ly ques­tions whether the ulti­mate penal­ty can be admin­is­tered fair­ly — free from the taint of racism; free from the dis­grace of coun­sel sleep­ing through a clien­t’s tri­al; free from the risk of exe­cut­ing an inno­cent per­son. Support for the death penal­ty is falling, and…

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Dec 31, 2000

The Largest Mass Execution in US History

On December 26, 1862, fol­low­ing the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment hanged 38 mem­bers of the Dakota tribe in Minnesota. It was the largest mass exe­cu­tion in United States…

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