Entries tagged with “Executions”
Executions
Upcoming Executions
,Jul 11, 2023
RESOURCE HIGHLIGHT: Updates to Upcoming Executions and Outcomes of Warrants Webpages
The Death Penalty Information Center maintains an up-to-date list of scheduled executions and outcomes of death warrants issued by the states and federal government. Updated each business day, the Upcoming Executions page contains interactive maps displaying the current number of active death warrants, as well as the total number of executions scheduled for each year, through 2026. There are also tables listing additional information about each of these…
Executions
Executions Overview
,May 01, 2023
DPIC GRAPHIC: Vast Majority of States Have Not Carried Out an Execution in Over Ten Years
The accompanying graph (click to view separately) displays the time in years since the last execution by each state as of May 1,…
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,Apr 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES: Human Rights and the Death Penalty
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), with the support of the Foreign Office of the Federal Government of Germany, recently undertook a project examining the U.S. death penalty through a human rights lens. DPIC has added a series of human rights pages to its website, reframing three aspects of the death penalty – race, conditions of confinement, and executions – in light of human rights norms and…
State & Federal Info
Federal Death Penalty
,Jul 14, 2021
One Year Later, Execution Spree Lays Bare Federal Death Penalty’s Systemic Failures
At 3:00 a.m. Central time on July 14, 2020, after his notice of execution had expired, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) strapped Daniel Lewis Lee to an execution gurney in the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. With the execution chamber curtains closed, correctional officials left him there for four hours while federal prosecutors filed pleadings in a federal appeals court to lift a stay of execution they had forgotten was still in…
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Executions Overview
,Lethal Injection
,Apr 13, 2017
Arkansas’ plan to execute seven prisoners over an 11-day period
DPIC staff members Robert Dunham, Robin Konrad, and Anne Holsinger explain Arkansas’ plan to execute seven prisoners over an 11-day period beginning April 17. They discuss the state’s reasons for the condensed execution schedule, current litigation related to lethal injection drugs, and the risks of this unprecedented rate of executions. Additional background information on the Arkansas’ executions is available…