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Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty

  • LEGISLATION: Virginia Rejects Death Penalty Expansion Bill
  • LAW REVIEWS: "Executing Those Who Do Not Kill"
  • New Report: Foreign Drug Offenders Facing Death in China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Kuwait
  • Leading Law Group Withdraws Model Death Penalty Laws Because System is Unfixable
  • U.S. Supreme Court Denies Rehearing in Kennedy v. Louisiana Opinion
  • Federal Judge Sharply Criticizes Texas System in Ordering Stay of Execution
  • U.S. to Seek Death Penalty under New Military Commissions
  • Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty News and Developments - Previous Years
  • Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty News and Developments: 2007
  • Those Executed Who Did Not Directly Kill the Victim
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Death Row

  • Nation's Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Dies 40 Years After Conviction
  • DEATH ROW: Reporter Describes Conditions on California's Death Row
  • NEW RESOURCES: "Death Row USA" Winter 2013 Now Available
  • MULTIMEDIA: Animated Film Seeks to Capture Typical Death Row Story
  • NEW RESOURCES: Death Row USA Fall 2012 Report Now Available
  • Sentence of One of Alabama's Longest Serving Death Row Inmates Reduced After 30 Years
  • INTERNATIONAL: UN Investigator Claims Executions are Increasingly Viewed as Torture Around the World
  • BOOKS: "Survivor on Death Row" - Ohio's Failed Attempt to Execute Romell Broom
  • LAW REVIEWS: Should Mentally Incompetent Death Row Inmates be Forcibly Medicated?
  • TIME ON DEATH ROW: After 34 Years, California's First Death Case Continues
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en Espanol

  • NEW RESOURCES: Spanish Language Podcast Now Available
  • Riverside (Calif.) condena más reos a muerte
  • Internacional y Opinión Pública
  • La Pena de Muerte y los Individuos
  • El Sistema Legal
  • Versión en Español
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Executions

  • LETHAL INJECTION: British Manufacturer Stops Drug Supply to Arkansas for Executions
  • LETHAL INJECTION: Arkansas Plans to Use Untested Drug in Executions
  • STUDIES: Amnesty International Reports Continued Movement Away from Capital Punishment
  • Lethal Injection Developments Around the Country
  • Federal Court Halts Louisiana Execution As State Rushes Out New Execution Process
  • UPCOMING EXECUTION: Lawyers Request Reprieve Because of Racial Bias in Dallas County
  • First Inmate to be Executed in 2013 Asked for Death Penalty; Exhibited Severe Mental Illness
  • DPIC'S YEAR END REPORT: What the Media Are Saying
  • NEW RESOURCES: Death Row USA Fall 2012 Report Now Available
  • California Chief Justice Says No Executions Likely for Three Years
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History of the Death Penalty

  • BOOKS: "Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America"
  • INNOCENCE: Alabama Lawmakers Unanimously Vote to Pardon Scottsboro Boys
  • BOOKS: Gil Wanger's Lifetime of Work Against Capital Punishment
  • MULTIMEDIA: Prof. John Bessler Takes Listeners on an Historical Journey Exploring Arbitrariness in the Death Penalty
  • BOOKS: "Race, Rape, and Injustice"
  • BOOKS: Early Supreme Court Cases on the Death Penalty
  • HISTORY: Public Executions in Virginia
  • IN MEMORIAM: Hugo Adam Bedau
  • HISTORY: "Gruesome Spectacles: The Cultural Reception of Botched Executions in America"
  • BOOKS: "Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment"
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Murder Rates

  • STUDIES: FBI Releases 2011 Crime Report Showing Drop in Murder Rates
  • STUDIES: FBI Uniform Crime Report Finds Murder Rates Declined in 2008
  • Murders Drop in New Jersey Following Moratorium and Abolition of Death Penalty
  • Murder Rates Nationally and By State

Recent Legislative Activity

  • Texas Enacts "Michael Morton Act" Intended to Reduce Wrongful Convictions
  • Former Death Row Inmates Are Ambassadors of Change
  • NEW VOICES: Nebraska Senator Changes Course After Hearing from Victims' Families
  • EDITORIALS: Miami Herald Calls on Governor to Block Fast-Track Executions
  • LETHAL INJECTION: Arkansas Plans to Use Untested Drug in Executions
  • Connecticut Supreme Court Considers Executions After Death Penalty Repeal
  • RECENT LEGISLATION: Texas Legislature Examining Problems of Innocence and Racial Bias
  • INNOCENCE: Alabama Lawmakers Unanimously Vote to Pardon Scottsboro Boys
  • RECENT LEGISLATION: Death Penalty Repeal Passes Delaware Senate; Defeated in Colorado
  • EDITORIALS: "With Death Penalty Bans Gaining Steam, What's Next for Texas?"
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Sentencing

  • ARBITRARINESS: Death Penalty Does Not Fall on Worst Offenders
  • NEW RESOURCES: State Graphs Showing the Decline in Death Sentences
  • SENTENCING: Virginia's Use of the Death Penalty Sharply Declines
  • ARBITRARINESS: Pennsylvania's Costly and Broken Death Penalty System
  • NEW RESOURCES: New Death Sentencing Information for 2012
  • DPIC'S YEAR END REPORT: What the Media Are Saying
  • RESOURCES: Death Sentences in Texas Are Fewer and More Geographically Isolated
  • SENTENCING: No Death Sentences in North Carolina for the First Time Since 1977
  • STUDIES: Colorado's Death Penalty Rarely Applied and Arbitrary
  • Use of the Death Penalty in California Declines in Key Counties
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State by State Information

  • INNOCENCE: Leading Researchers Release Report and National Registry of Exonerations in U.S.
  • NEW VOICES: Kentucky Prosecutors Call for Death Penalty Reform
  • DPIC RESOURCES: New State Pages Now Available
  • NEW RESOURCES: Five New States Added to State Information Pages
  • NEW RESOURCES: Five New States Added to State Information Pages
  • NEW RESOURCES: Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Capital Punishment, 2008
  • NEW RESOURCES: Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Capital Punishment, 2005
  • Puerto Rican Court Bars Extradition of Man Facing Death Penalty to Pennsylvania
  • Puerto Rico and the Death Penalty
  • States With and Without the Death Penalty
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U.S. Supreme Court

  • MULTIMEDIA: Bill Moyers Addresses Inequities in the Death Penalty
  • MULTIMEDIA: New Documentary Explores Landmark Right to Counsel Case
  • REPRESENTATION: On 50th Anniversary of Gideon, Some on Death Row Poorly Represented
  • MULTIMEDIA: Prof. John Bessler Takes Listeners on an Historical Journey Exploring Arbitrariness in the Death Penalty
  • STUDIES: Six-Part Series Explores Mental Illness and the Death Penalty in Texas
  • Supreme Court to Review Protection Against Self-Incrimination in Kansas Death Case
  • Georgia Disabilities Expert Calls for Halt to Execution of Inmate with Mental Retardation
  • Supreme Court Allows Death Penalty Review to Proceed Even Without Competent Defendant
  • Drug-Addicted, Suicidal Lawyer Files Improper Appeal, But Death Row Inmate Suffers Consequences
  • EDITORIALS: "America’s Retreat From the Death Penalty"
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