Archive of Earlier Press Releases and Media Advisories (2000 – 2011)

Date	Type	Title	Released By
12/15/2011	Press Release	DPIC’s Year End Report: Death Sentences Drop Well Below 100; Lowest Number Since Capital Punishment was Reinstated in 1976	Death Penalty Information Center
12/6/2011	Press Release	Two Year Assessment of Death Penalty Procedures Prompts Call for Suspension of Executions in Kentucky	American Bar Association
12/6/2011	Press Release	Administration of Justice Troubling in Kentucky; Report Highlights Flaws in System	Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
11/7/2011	Press Release	Hank Skinner Asks Governor Perry to Grant Thirty-Day Reprieve of Execution	Attorneys for Hank Skinner
10/27/2011	Press Release	Current and Former Elected Officials, Former Judges, Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Urge State Officials to Test DNA in Skinner Case	Attorneys for Hank Skinner
10/19/2011	Press Release	African Americans Illegally Barred From Serving on Juries Sue Alabama Prosecutor Over Racial Discrimination	Equal Justice Initiative
10/12/2011	Press Release	16 Top National Nonprofits Working in Criminal Justice	Philanthropedia
9/6/2011	Press Release	Hank Skinner Files Motion for DNA Testing Under New Law, Asks Court to Withdraw Nov. 9 Execution Date	Attorneys for Hank Skinner
9/1/2011	Press Release	Texas Set to Execute Man Despite Improper Racist Evidence, Presented by Prosecution at Trial	Texas Defender Service
8/29/2011	Press Release	SAFE CA Announces Initiative to Replace CA Death Penalty	SAFE California
8/26/2011	Press Release	Statement Announcing Ballot Initiative to Replace California’s Death Penalty in 2012	California Taxpayers for Justice
7/14/2011	Press Advisory	Shooting survivor sues Gov. Perry over violation of Victims’ Rights, demanding stay of Mark Stroman execution	Attorneys for Rais Bhuiyan
6/28/2011	Press Release	U.S. Supreme Court Urged to Stay Execution for Humberto Leal Garcia Whose Consular Rights Were Violated See also: Leal’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari	Attorneys for Humberto Leal
6/22/2011	Press Release	On 35th Anniversary of Death Penalty’s Reinstatement, New Report Shows System Remains Arbitrary and Unfair	The Death Penalty Information Center
6/21/2011	Press Release	Sister Helen Prejean Calls for Recall of Drug Unapproved for Use in Executions	Sister Helen Prejean
6/10/2011	Press Release	Victims’ Organizations Representing Survivors of Sexual Abuse Join Call for Stay of Execution for Humberto Leal Garcia	Attorneys for Humberto Leal
6/7/2011	Press Release	Former U.S. Diplomats, Retired Military Leaders, Judges, Prosecutors, & Americans Abroad Urge TX Governor to Grant Clemency to Humberto Leal	Attorneys for Humberto Leal
3/30/2011	Press Release	U.S. Attorney General Asked to Investigate Potential Violations of Federal Law by Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder	Maurie Levin, Adjunct Professor, University of Texas Capital Punishment Center
3/25/2011	Press Release	House Committee Set to Hear Repeal Bill	Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
3/16/2011	Press Release	Statement from Attorney for Cleve Foster in Response to Change in Texas Execution Protocol	Maurie Levin, Adjunct Professor, University of Texas Capital Punishment Center
3/9/2011	Press Release	Illinois Governor Signs Bill Ending Death Penalty, Marking the Fewest States with Capital Punishment Since 1978	Death Penalty Information Center
3/7/2011	Press Release	Supreme Court Rules Texas Inmate Can Use Federal Civil Rights Law to Seek DNA Testing	The Innocence Project
2/24/2011	Press Release	Georgia Department of Corrections Violates Federal Law in Desperate Effort to Get Drugs for Executions	John Bentivoglio of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP
2/7/2011	Press Release	Victims, Jurors Urge Clemency for Tim Adams	Texas Defender Service
2/2/11	Press Release	Lawsuit Filed Against FDA on Lethal Injections	Sidney Austin LLP
1/11/11	Press Release	Illinois Legislature Votes to Repeal the Death Penalty, Continuing a National Trend Away from Capital Punishment	Death Penalty Information Center
12/21/10	Press Release	DPIC Year End Report 2010: Executions Down 12% Nationwide, 29% in Texas; Death Sentences Near Historic Lows	Death Penalty Information Center
12/7/10	Media Advisory	Innocence Project to Present Evidence about Wrongful Executions of Cameron Todd Willingham and Claude Jones in Death Penalty Hearing	The Innocence Project (NY)
11/16/10	Press Release	Poll Shows Growing Support for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; Capital Punishment Ranked Lowest Among Budget Priorities	Death Penalty Information Center
10/4/10	Media Advisory	Fighting Crime in the U.S. and Internationally: Is the Death Penalty Necessary? A Unique Conversation Between U.S. and European Law Enforcement - Oct. 13, 2010 National Press Club	Death Penalty Information Center
9/7/10	Press Release	New Picture Has Emerged of Woman Facing Imminent Execution in Virginia	Death Penalty Information Center
8/30/10	Press Release	The NC Racial Justice Act and the SBI Audit: The Risk of Executing the Innocent	Attorneys for Melvin White
7/22/10	Press Release	Study of Death Penalty in North Carolina Shows That ‘Race Matters’	University of Colorado at Boulder
3/11/10	Media Advisory	Critical DNA Evidence Untested As Texas Execution Nears	Death Penalty Information Center
1/18/10	Press Release	Death Penalty Costs N.C. Taxpayers $11 million a Year	Duke Sanford School of Public Policy
12/18/09	Press Release	DPIC’s Year End Report: Death Sentences in U.S. Lowest Since Death Penalty Reinstated in 1976	Death Penalty Information Center
11/25/09	Press Release	Public Advocate and Louisville Metro Chief Public Defender Call for Moratorium on Executions while ABA Reviews Administration of Death Penalty in KY	Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy
11/12/09	Press Release	Leading Law Group Withdraws Model Death Penalty Laws	Death Penalty Information Center
10/20/09	Press Release	New Report Shows States Can Save Hundreds of Millions by Abolishing the Death Penalty	Death Penalty Information Center
7/13/09	Press Release	Two More Death Row Inmates Exonerated in Illinois and Florida	Death Penalty Information Center
6/15/09	Press Release	Death Penalty Does Not Deter Murder, According to New Survey of America’s Leading Criminologists	Death Penalty Information Center
5/14/09	Press Release	Another Inmate Exonerated From Death Row as New Evidence Leads Tennessee to Drop Charges	Death Penalty Information Center
3/13/09	Press Release	New Mexico’s Legislature Votes to Abolish Death Penalty - Part of National Trend Away from Capital Punishment En Español: LEGISLATURA DE NUEVO MEXICO VOTA POR ABOLICION DE LA PENA DE MUERTE, HACIENDOSE ECO DE TENDENCIA NACIONAL PARA ELIMINARLA	Death Penalty Information Center
12/11/08	Press Release	USE OF DEATH PENALTY SHRINKS AND BECOMES MORE MARGINALIZED IN 2008	Death Penalty Information Center
12/5/08	Press Release	Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Releases Report on Death Penalty Developments in 2008	Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
11/11/08	Press Release	Florida Inmate Facing Imminent Execution Despite Evidence of Witness Tampering by Prosecution	Death Penalty Information Center
10/27/08	Press Release	Exonerated Ex-Death Row Prisoners Call for Examination of Texas Death Penalty System	Witness to Innocence
8/18/08	Press Release	Texas Set to Execute Inmate under Texas “Law of Parties” who did not Actually Committ Murder	Texas Defender Service
8/11/08	Press Release	Presidency Declaration on Behalf of the European Union on the Execution of Mr. Jose Medellin in the United States (Texas)	Council of the European Union
6/25/08	Press Release	U.S. Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty for Child Rape Unconstitutional	Death Penalty Information Center
5/1/08	Press Release	First Scheduled Execution Ending National Moratorium Is Based on False Evidence	Georgia Resource Center
4/16/08	Press Release	U.S. Supreme Court Narrowly Upholds Kentucky’s Lethal Injection Process	Death Penalty Information Center
3/6/08	Press Release	Maryland Death Penalty Has Cost State Taxpayers More Than $186 Million	The Abell Foundation
1/08/08	Press Release	Kenny Richey Released: Ohio releases Richey weeks after New Jersey repeal for fears of executing innocent	Ohioans to Stop Executions
12/10/07	Press Release	HISTORIC DEATH PENALTY VOTE REFLECTS GROWING NATIONAL SHIFT AWAY FROM CAPITAL PUNISHMENT	Death Penalty Information Center
11/30/07	Press Release	SUPREME COURT TO ADDRESS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN DEATH PENALTY CASE	Death Penalty Information Center
10/10/07	Press Release	SOUTHERN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HONORS ATTORNEYS PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES	Southern Center for Human Rights
6/28/07	Media Advisory	Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Columbus Dispatch and Ohio News Network to Receive Journalism Awards	Death Penalty Information Center
6/28/07	Press Release	Supreme Court Rules Texas Man with Severe Mental Illness May Not be Executed	Death Penalty Information Center
6/28/07	Press Release	Supreme Court Says that Texas May Not Execute Severely Mentally Ill Man	The Texas Defender’s Service
6/9/07	Press Release	Death Penalty Facing Crisis of Confidence with American Public, New Poll Finds	Death Penalty Information Center
2/26/07	Press Release	Panetti v. Quarterman Briefs Filed Today in US Supreme Court	The Justice Project
12/14/06	Press Release	USE OF DEATH PENALTY DECLINES IN 2006: Public Now Favors Life Without Parole, Lethal Injection Challenges Lead to Fewest Executions in a Decade, Death Sentences at 30-Year Low	Death Penalty Information Center
10/26/06	Press Release	Federal Court Poised to Issue Groundbreaking Ruling on Lethal Injection: Serious Problems Found in Methods Used Around the Country	Death Penalty Information Center
9/17/06	Press Release	Inconsistency Prevails in Lethal Injection Controversy Many Inmates Executed While Others Are Spared	Death Penalty Information Center
6/27/06	Media Advisory	DPIC Resources Available as 30th Anniversary of Gregg v. Georgia Approaches	Death Penalty Information Center
6/23/06	Media Advisory	Author Michael Meltsner to Join DPIC in Bestowing 10th Annual Thurgood Marshall Journalism Awards Awards honor excellence in coverage of capital punishment	Death Penalty Information Center
2/27/06	Press Release	JOHN BALLARD IS 123rd DEATH ROW INMATE FREED Florida Man Acquitted of All Charges Attachment: DPIC’s Supplement to the Record of Senate Subcommittee Hearings on the Death Penalty Regarding DPIC’s Innocence List	Death Penalty Information Center
12/21/05	Press Release	2005 MARKS EXTRAORDINARY YEAR OF DEATH PENALTY CHANGE (En Espanol) DPIC’s Year End Report Reveals Record Low Death Sentences, Legislative Action, and Supreme Court Restrictions	Death Penalty Information Center
11/16/05	Press Release	Harold Wilson is the 122nd Death Row Inmate Freed After 16 Years, Pennsylvania Man Acquitted of All Charges	Death Penalty Information Center
11/9/05	Press Release	U.S. Death Penalty Continues Steady Decline as 1000th Execution Approaches Public Opinion, Executions, Death Sentences Drop as Public Skepticism Rises	Death Penalty Information Center
10/27/05	Press Release	New Report Examines Death Penalty Through Jurors’ Experience “Blind Justice Details How Death Penalty Fails Jurors”	Death Penalty Information Center
8/15/05	Press Release	Two Cases Added to DPIC’s Innocence List, Bringing Total to 121	Death Penalty Information Center
4/25/05	Press Release	DEATH SENTENCES CONTINUED TO DECLINE IN 2004 In 2004, 125 people were sentenced to death the death, the fewest number since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.	Death Penalty Information Center
12/15/04	Press Release	DPIC ISSUES NEW INNOCENCE REPORT: 116 NOW FREED FROM DEATH ROW IN 25 STATES	Death Penalty Information Center
12/14/04	Press Release	DEATH PENALTY NUMBERS IN 2004 CONTINUE DRAMATIC FIVE-YEAR DECLINE	Death Penalty Information Center
8/11/04	Press Release	EXPERTS QUESTION “QUICK FIX” TO NEW YORK’S DEATH PENALTY	Death Penalty Information Center
8/9/04	Press Release	RYAN MATTHEWS IS 115TH DEATH ROW INMATE FREED	Death Penalty Information Center
6/24/04	Press Release	FULL RIGHT TO A JURY WILL NOT EXTEND TO OLDER CASES	Death Penalty Information Center
5/28/04	Press Release	GLARING DEFICIENCIES IN THE DEATH PENALTY SYSTEM CONFIRMED AS ANOTHER INMATE IS FREED	Death Penalty Information Center
5/10/04	Press Release	EXECUTION WITH INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS NEARS CRISIS STAGE	Death Penalty Information Center
2/24/04	Press Release	SUPREME COURT SAYS TEXAS DEATH ROW INMATE WHO CAME WITHIN MINUTES OF EXECUTION WAS DENIED RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL	Death Penalty Information Center
2/18/04	Press Release	ALAN GELL, NATION’S 113th DEATH ROW INMATE TO BE EXONERATED, WALKS FREE AS NORTH CAROLINA MORATORIUM DEBATE CONTINUES	Death Penalty Information Center
12/29/03	Press Release	DPIC 2003 YEAR END REPORT: DEATH ROW POPULATION, EXECUTIONS, DEATH SENTENCES, PUBLIC SUPPORT ALL DECLINE IN 2003	Death Penalty Information Center
9/15/03	Press Release	DOUBTS ABOUND IN UPCOMING TENNESSEE EXECUTION	Death Penalty Information Center
7/29/03	Press Release	DEATH ROW EXONERATIONS REACH RECORD NUMBERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY	Death Penalty Information Center
7/16/03	Press Release	DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL THURGOOD MARSHALL JOURNALISM AWARDS	Death Penalty Information Center
5/30/03	Press Release	CONGRESSWOMAN ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON JOINS DC TEENS FOR SUMMIT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT	Death Penalty Information Center
5/9/03	Press Release	LOUISIANA MAN IS NATION’S 108th DEATH ROW EXONEREE	Death Penalty Information Center
1/24/03	Press Release	ANOTHER FLORIDA DEATH ROW INMATE TO BE RELEASED AFTER STATE DROPS ALL CHARGES	Death Penalty Information Center
1/10/03	Press Release	ILLINOIS GOVERNOR PARDONS FOUR DEATH ROW INMATES, CRITICIZES STATE’S “BROKEN” DEATH PENALTY	Death Penalty Information Center
10/18/02	Press Release	2002 REPORT TRACES YEAR OF CHANGE IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: DPIC’s Year End Report Examines Isolation of Death Penalty Use, Supreme Court Decisions, Reform Efforts	Death Penalty Information Center
10/15/02	Press Release	SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN TEXAS DEATH PENALTY CASE ON RACIALLY BIASED JURY SELECTION	Death Penalty Information Center
8/27/02	Press Release	AWARD-WINNING DEATH PENALTY CURRICULUM AVAILABLE FOR UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR	Death Penalty Information Center
8/1/02	Press Release	KENTUCKY MAN IS NATION’S 102nd DEATH ROW EXONEREE	Death Penalty Information Center
7/17/02	Press Release	JOURNALISTS HONORED DURING SIXTH ANNUAL THURGOOD MARSHALL AWARDS	Death Penalty Information Center
7/9/2002	Press Release	SENATOR KENNEDY IS KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR DEATH PENALTY JOURNALISM AWARDS	Death Penalty Information Center
7/1/02	Press Release	JUDGE DECLARES FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS QUESTIONS OF INNOCENCE, FAIRNESS PERSIST	Death Penalty Information Center
6/24/02	Press Release	SUPREME COURT REQUIRES JURY PARTICIPATION IN DEATH SENTENCES	Death Penalty Information Center
6/20/02	Press Release	SUPREME COURT DECLARES EXECUTION OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION UNCONSTITUTIONAL	Death Penalty Information Center
5/6/02	Press Release	PENNSYLVANIA MAN IS 101st EXONERATED DEATH ROW INMATE	Death Penalty Information Center
4/15/02	Press Release	ILLINOIS COMMISSION ANNOUNCES NATION’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE DEATH PENALTY REVIEW; RECOMMENDS SWEEPING CHANGES TO PROTECT INNOCENT, ENSURE FAIRNESS	Death Penalty Information Center
4/15/02	Media Advisory	ILLINOIS COMMISSION ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO RELEASE LANDMARK REPORT ON THE DEATH PENALTY	Death Penalty Information Center
4/9/02	Press Release	100th DEATH ROW EXONEREE FREED IN ARIZONA	Death Penalty Information Center
1/3/02	Press Release	99th DEATH ROW EXONEREE TO BE FREED IN FLORIDA	Death Penalty Information Center
12/12/01	Press Release	2001 DEATH PENALTY REPORT FINDS 22% DECLINE IN EXECUTIONS, REFORM INITIATIVES GAINING GROUND	Death Penalty Information Center
11/30/01	Press Release	SHODDY REPRESENTATION, RACE BIAS NO BAR TO RECORD NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA	Death Penalty Information Center
8/23/01	Press Release	NORTH CAROLINA PREPARES TO EXECUTE INMATE REPRESENTED BY ALCOHOLIC ATTORNEY	Death Penalty Information Center
5/11/01	Press Release	RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, INEPT DEFENSE, AND BASIC UNFAIRNESS MAKE PENDING NORTH CAROLINA EXECUTION CLOSER TO THE NORM	Death Penalty Information Center
4/13/01	Media Advisory	LANDMARK NORTH CAROLINA STUDY OF RACE AND THE DEATH PENALTY TO BE RELEASED MONDAY	Death Penalty Information Center
3/5/01	Press Release	CONCERNS ABOUT AMERICA’S DEATH PENALTY POLICY RESONATE AS NATION APPROACHES 700th SCHEDULED EXECUTION SINCE REINSTATEMENT OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT	Death Penalty Information Center
1/15/01	Press Release	IN RARE MOVE, FULL CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS WILL REVIEW DEATH ROW INMATE’S “SLEEPING LAWYER” CLAIM	Death Penalty Information Center
12/29/00	Press Release	TWO MORE DEATH ROW INMATES CLEARED, CAPPING A RECORD TWO-YEAR SPAN	Death Penalty Information Center
12/20/00	Press Release	2000 REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY FINDS WATERSHED YEAR OF CHANGE	Death Penalty Information Center

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Archive of Earlier Press Releases and Media Advisories (2000 – 2011)