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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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
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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