Entries tagged with “DPIC Testimony”

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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…

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 1, 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 1, 2017 by Robert Brett Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center (Baton Rouge, May 17,…

Jan 27, 2016

Criminal Justice Committee, Florida Senate: Materials from hear­ing on revi­sions to Florida’s death penal­ty statute in light of Hurst v. Florida

Criminal Justice Committee, Florida Senate: Materials from hear­ing on revi­sions to Florida’s death penal­ty statute in light of Hurst v. Florida fea­tur­ing tes­ti­mo­ny of Robert Dunham, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center (Tallahassee, January 27, 2016). Mr. Dunham’s tes­ti­mo­ny begins at the 11:30 mark of the video of the Senate Committee…

Feb 21, 2007

Third World Congress Against the Death Penalty

The Third World Congress Against the Death Penalty took place in Paris from February 1 – 3, 2007. During this time, Paris wel­comed hun­dreds of death penal­ty experts and activists from around the world, includ­ing numer­ous U.S. rep­re­sen­ta­tives who pro­vid­ed a broad overview of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment trends in the U.S. Among the American pan­elists who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Congress…

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Jul 02, 2006

Tipping the Scales: Supreme Court Fails to Recognize Danger of Executing the Innocent

The Anniston StarSection: OpinionJuly 2, 2006Author: Richard C. DieterSpecial to The StarIn decid­ing a nar­row issue about an obscure part of Kansas’ death penal­ty law, the Supreme Court last week revealed a chasm of dif­fer­ing opin­ions regard­ing the fun­da­men­tal reli­a­bil­i­ty of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in this coun­try. Although the oppos­ing views were wide­ly diver­gent and sharply expressed, the court did us all a ser­vice by iden­ti­fy­ing the key prob­lem that may decide the future of the death penal­ty in…

Dec 07, 2005

Speech by Richard C. Dieter giv­en at the International Conference on Human Rights and the Death Penalty

Tokyo, JapanDecember 6 – 7, 2005Next we would like to wel­come, Mr. Richard Dieter, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center.I would like to thank the European Commission, the American Bar Association and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations for invit­ing me to speak about the death penal­ty in the United States. I first want to say that our Japanese hosts have been espe­cial­ly gra­cious – I imme­di­ate­ly felt wel­comed here, and I want to thank you for that.Today we are addressing…

Sep 15, 1999

Historic Illinois Hearings Address Innocence and the Death Penalty

Following a series of cel­e­brat­ed releas­es of inno­cent defen­dants from its death row, Illinois’s House of Representatives held hear­ings to address the state’s sys­tem of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment on September 15 & 16, 1999. Among those who tes­ti­fied were Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking; Mike Farrell, actor and human rights activist; Renny Cushing, Director of Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation; Bryan Stevenson, Director of Equal Justice Initiative; Professor Lawrence…