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women state federal info state by state federal death penalty military about staff board of directors about us dpic in the media dpic testimony press releases work for dpic for the media resources publications testimony related websites dpic podcasts dpic reports new voices en español for educators high school curriculum teacher s guide college curriculum fact sheet donate dpic reports dec 01 2023 the death penalty in 2023 year end report only 5 states car ried out exe cu tions and 7 states imposed new death sen tences in 2023 as more americans say the death penal ty is applied unfair ly rather than fairly read more dpic reports dec 16 2020 dpic report compromised justice how a legacy of racial violence informs missouri s death penalty today missouri is one of a hand ful of states that has con sis tent ly exe cut ed peo ple in the last five years understanding the his tor i cal appli ca tion of the death penal ty in missouri helps our under stand ing of how cap i tal pun ish ment is used today read more death penalty census oct 19 2023 new resource updated death penalty census dpic s data base of more than 9 800 death sen tences imposed between the supreme court rul ing strik ing down u s death penal ty laws in 1972 and january 1 2022 details the sys temic arbi trari ness bias and error of the mod ern u s death penalty read more dpic reports jun 22 2023 dpic report doomed to repeat the legacy of race in tennessee s contemporary death penalty the his tor i cal use of cap i tal pun ish ment in tennessee shows a clear con nec tion between the extra ju di cial lynch ings of the 1800 s and 1900 s and the state sanc tioned death penal ty prac tices of today read more prosecutorial accountability jun 30 2022 dpic analysis finds prosecutorial misconduct implicated in more than 550 death penalty reversals or exonerations a dpic review of death sen tences imposed and over turned in the united states since 1972 has found more than 550 pros e cu to r i al mis con duct rever sals and exon er a tions more than 5 6 of all death sen tences imposed in the u s in the past half century read more 1 2 3 4 5 news developments race apr 15 2024 wilbert rideau former louisiana death sentenced prisoner is honored for extraordinary journalism during 44 years at angola prison on april 12 2024 long island university cel e brat ed the 2023 george polk awards in journalism hon or ing inves tiga tive jour nal ists and rec og niz ing six teen for mer win ners includ ing for mer ly death sen tenced pris on er wilbert rideau mr rideau spent forty four years incar cer at ed in louisiana s angola state penitentiary where he cre at ed the lifer one of the first black prison peri od i cals sentenced to death in 1961 at age nine teen mr rideau spent twelve years on death row before the united states supreme court s deci sion in furman v georgia 1972 which struck down louisiana s cap i tal pun ish ment scheme mr rideau was read more secrecy apr 12 2024 john oliver s last week tonight criticizes execution secrecy laws and sketchy procurement of pentobarbital by federal government during the april 7 2024 episode of last week tonight host john oliver focused on grim devel op ments in the death penal ty since his last seg ment cov er ing lethal injec tion in 2019 since then 91 peo ple have been exe cut ed includ ing 13 fed er al pris on ers dur ing for mer president donald trump s admin is tra tion our fed er al and state gov ern ments have con tin ued to pur sue ques tion ably legal and def i nite ly hor ri fy ing ways that again i would argue they shouldn t be doing at all mr oliver assert ed he explained that the increased dif fi cul ty in obtain ing drugs required for lethal injec tion has read more prosecutorial accountability apr 11 2024 rare agreement between district attorney and defense counsel acknowledge prosecutorial misconduct and need for new trial for melissa lucio on april 5 2024 cameron county district attorney luis saenz and innocence project attor ney vanessa potkin released a joint state ment regard ing melissa lucio s case which has been pend ing addi tion al review for almost two years on january 11 2023 the par ties sub mit ted an agreed findings of fact and conclusions of law stat ing that the defense was not giv en access to favor able infor ma tion in the prosecution s pos ses sion at tri al an error that they agree should enti tle ms lucio to a new tri al under texas pro ce dure the tri al court must make a recommendation read more race apr 10 2024 lawsuit filed at the california supreme court alleges racist application of the death penalty violates the state constitution on april 9 2024 the california office of the state public defender along with sev er al civ il rights groups filed an extra or di nary writ peti tion at the california supreme court argu ing that the state s cap i tal pun ish ment sys tem vio lates the state s constitution because of its racial ly biased imple men ta tion in 2021 the california committee on revision of the penal code con firmed that racial bias is entrenched in the state s death penal ty sys tem the california constitution does not per mit a two tiered sys tem of jus tice where the most severe sen tence the state has on its books read more race apr 09 2024 santa clara california county district attorney requests resentencing for county s entire death row on april 5 2024 santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen filed peti tions ask ing the coun ty supe ri or court to resen tence 15 death sen tenced men from his coun ty to sen tences of life in prison with out the pos si bil i ty for parole these peti tions were filed four years after da rosen announced his office would no longer seek the death penal ty a deci sion part ly in response to nation wide calls for crim i nal legal reform fol low ing the mur der of george floyd at the time da rosen said that mr floyd s death had changed our coun try and our read more costs apr 08 2024 ohio s attorney general s report describes death penalty as enormously expensive and broken in 2023 capital crimes report at a time when faith in society s insti tu tions is at an all time low the fail ure of the cap i tal pun ish ment sys tem could be exhibit a con cludes the annu al capital crimes report issued by by ohio attorney general dave yost the report high lights numer ous prob lems with its bro ken cap i tal pun ish ment sys tem includ ing the enor mous ly expen sive cost read more clemency apr 05 2024 missouri s first execution of 2024 scheduled for man whose trial lawyers had conflicts of interest and who has unprecedented support for clemency brian dorsey pic tured a missouri death row pris on er sched uled for exe cu tion on april 9 2024 has gar nered wide spread sup port for clemen cy from more than 70 cor rec tions offi cials a for mer missouri supreme court judge mul ti ple jurors democratic and republican state leg is la tors faith lead ers and his fam i ly mem bers sev er al of whom are relat ed to the vic tims sarah and ben bonnie all of whom have called on governor mike parson to com mute his sen tence to life in prison with out the pos si bil i ty of parole noteworthy among these sup port ers is a group of read more upcoming executions apr 04 2024 oklahoma set to carry out its first execution of 2024 attorney general told to man up in response to concerns about pace of executions oklahoma is sched uled to exe cute michael smith on april 4 the state s first exe cu tion of 2024 convicted in 2003 for the sep a rate 2002 mur ders of janet moore and sharath babu pulluru in oklahoma county mr smith has spent the last 21 years on death row following his arrest mr smith con fessed to his involve ment in these killings to the police but now says that he was high on drugs dur ing his inter ro ga tion and does not even remem ber get ting arrested read more human rights apr 03 2024 worldwide wednesday international roundup afghanistan democratic republic of the congo india iran nigeria pakistan russia saudi arabia and united states georgia s exe cu tion of willie pye the state s first in more than four years gar nered crit i cism from the european union although the european union and its 27 member states oppose cap i tal pun ish ment in all cir cum stances we are espe cial ly con cerned about the sched uled exe cu tion of mr pye giv en his intel lec tu al dis abil i ty and issues regard ing the qual i ty of his legal rep re sen ta tion said the eu s let ter to the state s board of pardons and parole in sup port of mr pye s clemen cy peti tion which was sub se quent ly denied on march 19 2024 following the march read more mental illness apr 02 2024 following stay of execution oklahoma court finds death sentenced prisoner incompetent to be executed due to serious mental illness on march 28 judge michael hogan of pittsburg county ruled that james ryder is incom pe tent to be exe cut ed after a hear ing where experts estab lished mr ryder s seri ous men tal ill ness we are relieved the court reached the only log i cal con clu sion james has no ratio nal under stand ing of why oklahoma plans to exe cute him said mr ryder s attor ney emma rolls fol low ing the deci sion james has suf fered from schiz o phre nia for near ly 40 years and has lit tle con nec tion to objec tive real i ty mr ryder 62 was the first sched uled exe cu tion of 2024 in oklahoma before the read more view more news apr 01 2024 texas court of criminal appeals removes henderson county man from death row citing intellectual disability news mar 29 2024 women s history month profile series miriam krinsky executive director of fair and just prosecution news mar 26 2024 citing a lack of evidence editors of the scientific american call for abolition of the death penalty in new op ed website guide an introduction to the navigation system features and terminology of dpic s website upcoming executions information about scheduled executions around the country innocence for every 8 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