Jul 19, 2021
DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham Appears on Sharon (Pennsylvania) Herald “New Generation” Podcast
DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham appeared on the July 16, 2021 episode of New Generation, a podcast…
Jul 19, 2021
DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham appeared on the July 16, 2021 episode of New Generation, a podcast…
Costs
,Deterrence
,Race
,New Voices
,Jan 12, 2022
In the January 2022 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Contra Costa County, California District Attorney Diana Becton (pictured), speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about the rise…
New Voices
,Conditions on Death Row
,Mar 31, 2021
In the March 31, 2021 podcast episode of Discussions with DPIC, managing director of DPIC, Anne Holsinger, and Raphael Sperry, president of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR),…
Human Rights
,Race
,Jan 06, 2023
Longtime civil and human rights lawyer, Diann Rust-Tierney, the executive director of Georgetown University’s Racial Justice Institute, joins Death Penalty Information Center executive director Robert Dunham in the first DPIC podcast of 2023 for a…
Costs
,Innocence
,Apr 29, 2021
As a state legislator in 1981, Jim Petro (pictured) supported a bill to reinstate Ohio’s death penalty after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state’s previous capital punishment statute. Later, as Ohio Attor…
New Voices
,Apr 14, 2020
In the April 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Denver District Attorney Beth McCann (pictured) speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about Colorado’s repeal of capital punishme…
New Voices
,Mar 04, 2020
In the March 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Hannah Cox (pictured), National Manager of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCATDP) speaks with Death Penalty Informatio…
Lethal Injection
,Dec 09, 2020
In the December 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, anesthesiologist Dr. Joel Zivot from Emory University Hospital speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about his discoveries fro…
Race
,Nov 25, 2020
In the November 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Gretchen Engel (pictured, left), Executive Director of North Carolina’s Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL), joins Ngozi Ndulue (pictured, below), Senior Director of Research a…
Race
,United States Supreme Court
,May 11, 2022
In the May 2022 episode of Discussions With DPIC, Professor Alexis Hoag (pictured) of Brooklyn Law School joined DPIC Deputy Director Ngozi Ndulue for a wide-ranging conversation marking the 35th anniversary of McCleskey v.…
Race
,Nov 01, 2022
In the October 2022 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Death Penalty Information Center Deputy Director Ngozi Ndulue and Data Storyteller Tiana Herring discuss DPIC’s 2022 report
Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Executions Overview
,Aug 24, 2022
In the August 2022 Discussions With DPIC podcast, former Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry and former U.S. Magistrate Judge Andy Lester (pictured), two of the co-chairs of the bipartisan Oklahoma Death Penalty…
Clemency
,Oct 15, 2020
In the October 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, former Illinois Governor George Ryan speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about the events that persuaded him to commute the d…
Innocence
,Race
,Representation
,Clemency
,Feb 25, 2022
In the February 2022 episode of Discussions with DPIC, federal public defender, Amanda Bass (pictured, right), and Justice for Julius advocate Cece Jones-Davis (pictured, left) speak with Death Penalty In…
Federal Death Penalty
,Apr 04, 2022
In the March 2022 episode of Discussions With DPIC, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Senior Lecturer Meredith Rountree speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about her study of th…
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Jul 20, 2022
Data from fifty years of the modern U.S. death penalty reveal “a system that is rife with error, filled with discrimination, [and] very, very difficult to fairly administer,” Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham says …
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Feb 13, 2020
Rocky Myers (pictured) may be innocent and intellectually disabled, and his jury voted to sentence him to life. So why is he facing execution in Alabama? In the February 2020 episode of
Conditions on Death Row
,Jul 20, 2020
In the latest episode of Discussions With DPIC, David Fathi, the director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project, speaks with DPIC’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger about death-row conditions across the c…
Arbitrariness
,Aug 02, 2018
The latest edition of Discussions with DPIC features H.E. Miller, Jr. and Bradley MacLean, co-authors of a recent study on the application of Tennessee’s death penalty. Miller and MacLean describe the findings from their article,
Representation
,Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,May 11, 2020
In the May 2020 edition of Discussions with DPIC, veteran capital defense lawyer Kelley Henry (pictured), who is representing several Tennessee death-row prisoners facing execution dates in 2020, speaks w…
Mental Illness
,Race
,Representation
,Jul 27, 2021
Innocence
,Race
,Mar 09, 2021
In the March 2021 edition of Discussions with DPIC, Death Penalty Information Center Senior Director of Research and Special Projects Ngozi Ndulue is joined by Carine Williams — the Chief Program Strategy…
Race
,Jun 30, 2020
In the June 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Henderson Hill (pictured), Senior Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project, speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Directo…
United States Supreme Court
,Native Americans
,Federal Death Penalty
,Oct 01, 2020
In the September 30, 2020 episode of the Discussions With DPIC podcast, Native American Rights Fund senior staff attorney Joel Williams joins Death Penalty Information Center executive director Robert Du…
Juveniles
,Mental Illness
,Race
,Mar 23, 2023
In the latest episode of “Discussions with DPIC,” Robert Dunham, former Executive Director of DPIC, interviews Karen Steele (pictured), a researcher and defense attorney in Oregon, rega…
Recent Legislative Activity
,New Voices
,Dec 02, 2021
In the December 2021 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Death Penalty Information Center Deputy Director Ngozi Ndulue interviews State Representative Jean Schmidt (pictured) about her work as a primary sponsor of a bill in…
Deterrence
,Race
,Aug 31, 2021
In the third episode of the Discussions with DPIC podcast’s Rethinking Public Safety series, Miriam Krinsky (pictured) speaks with DPIC Senior Director of Research and Special Projects Ngozi Ndul…
Jun 03, 2021
In 1989, Nevada prison doctor, Dr. Karen Gedney (pictured) refused a request by state officials to write a prescription for execution drugs, believing that doing so violated her medical oath to do no harm and her …
Innocence
,Oct 10, 2019
In the latest episode of Discussions with DPIC, Texas
Women
,Mar 27, 2017
“We live in a gendered society,” says Dr. Mary Atwell (pictured), one of the nation’s foremost experts on women and capital punishment, and the men and women who go to death row are different. In the latest podcast episode of “Discussions with DPI…
Race
,Jan 21, 2021
In February 1951, Virginia executed seven Black men on charges they had raped a white woman two years earlier. The “Martinsville 7” — Francis DeSales Grayson, Frank Hairst…
Innocence
,Nov 12, 2019
At least 166 wrongfully convicted death-row prisoners have been exonerated since the death penalty was reinstituted in the United States in 1973. That number, however, may only scr…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Oct 20, 2020
In his first interview since his September 24, 2020 exoneration, former Mississippi death-row prison…