Testimony and Statements

For testimony by Executive Director Robert Dunham and former Executive Director Richard C. Dieter, please visit our page DPIC Testimony.

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May 01, 2019

Louisiana Christian Faith Leaders Call for State to Abolish Death Penalty

Christian church lead­ers from Catholic and Protestant denom­i­na­tions across Louisiana have called upon state law­mak­ers to pass leg­is­la­tion to end the death penal­ty in the Bayou State. On April 25, 2019, the Louisiana Interchurch Conference and two dozen faith rep­re­sen­ta­tives held a press con­fer­ence on the steps of the state capi­tol in Baton Rouge advo­cat­ing for leg­is­la­tion to abol­ish the state’s cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment law and pledg­ing their sup­port for as long as it takes for abo­li­tion efforts to…

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Mar 13, 2019

Statements from Governors Imposing Moratoria on Executions

In the past few years, the gov­er­nors of California, Pennsylvania, Washington, Colorado, and Oregon have put a halt to exe­cu­tions in their states because of prob­lems in the death penal­ty sys­tem. Below are some of the rea­sons they gave for for their…

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Feb 19, 2019

Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, New Hampshire House of Representatives: Testimony on HB 455 – Changing the penalty for capital murder to life imprisonment without the possibility for parole

Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, New Hampshire House of Representatives: Testimony on HB 455 – Changing the penal­ty for cap­i­tal mur­der to life impris­on­ment with­out the pos­si­bil­i­ty for parole by Robert Brett Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center (Concord, February 19, 2019). Exhibits to Mr. Dunham’s tes­ti­mo­ny can be accessed…

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May 17, 2017

Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice, Louisiana House of Representatives: Testimony on HB 101 – Eliminating the death penalty for offenses committed on or after August 12017

Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice, Louisiana House of Representatives: Testimony on HB 101 – Eliminating the death penal­ty for offens­es com­mit­ted on or after August 1, 2017 by Robert Brett Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center (Baton Rouge, May 17,…

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Sep 07, 2016

National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators Calls for Abolition of Death Penalty

Calling racial bias in the admin­is­tra­tion of the death penal­ty an undis­put­ed fact,” the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL), a group of 320 Hispanic leg­is­la­tors, has passed a res­o­lu­tion urg­ing leg­isla­tive action in all state and fed­er­al juris­dic­tions to repeal the death penal­ty across the United States. The leg­is­la­tors note that the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem sub­jects Black, Latino, Native Americans, and all peo­ple of col­or” to more puni­tive treatment,…

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