Entries tagged with “DPIC Analysis”
Policy Issues
Deterrence
,Murder Rates
,Nov 08, 2022
DPIC Analysis: Pandemic Murder Rates Highest in Death Penalty States
A DPIC analysis of 2020 U.S. homicide data has found that murder rates during the pandemic were highest in states with the death penalty and lowest in long-time abolitionist…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Aug 26, 2022
DPIC Analysis: At Least a Dozen Exonerations in 2021 Involved the Wrongful Threat or Pursuit of the Death Penalty
A Death Penalty Information Center review of data from the National Registry of Exonerations has found that the pursuit or threatened use of the death penalty by police or prosecutors in nine different states led to the wrongful murder convictions of at least twelve innocent people who were exonerated in…