Special from DPIC

SPECIAL FEATURES AND RESEARCH MATERIALS:

• DPIC YouTube Channel - Home to DPIC's weekly video podcasts as well as other videos covering important topics on the death penalty.
• High School Educational Curriculum iBook - Our High School Curriculum in iBook format for iPad.
• DPIC's app for the iPhone and iPad - provides convenient access to the most frequently used resources and news. 
• Research on the Death Penalty - A collection of research that has been done on capital punishment, sorted by category.
• DPIC "On the Issues" Podcasts
  A series of podcasts by DPIC exploring various topics within the death penalty system.
• 2011 Year End Report
  Overview of all 2011 developments in the death penalty.
• California Cost Study 2011
  DPIC summary of "A roadmap to mend or end the California legislature's multi-billion dollar death penalty debacle" from Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review by Judge Arthur L. Alarcon & Paula M. Mitchell.
• Struck by Lightning Report
  Report marking 35th anniversary of reinstatement of the death penalty
• Smart on Crime
  Reconsidering the death penalty in a time of economic crisis
• 2010 Year End Report
  Overview of all 2010 developments in the death penalty.
• 2009 News Article Index
  An index arranged by date of some of the important news articles on capital punishment from 2008 (Excel spreadsheet).
• 2008 News Article Index
  An index arranged by date of some of the important news articles on capital punishment from 2007 (Excel spreadsheet).
• State Information Pages
  Index of pages containing state-specific information about the death penalty.
• Per Capita Execution Rates
  Updated list of per capita execution rates by state.
• Recent Legislative Activity
• Innocence
  The innocence page has received a complete make-over and now includes many full text articles on the different exonerees.
  
• High School Educational Curriculum
  A curriculum for High Schools prepared in conjunction with Michigan State University.
• College Educational Curriculum A curriculum for colleges prepared in conjunction with the Education Development Center.
• Death Penalty in Flux See the current state of the death penalty in the different states.
• History of the Death Penalty
• National Registry of Exonerations - The National Registry of Exonerations is a joint project of the University of the Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. It provides detailed information about  all known exonerations (for all crimes, not just death penalty crimes) in the United States since 1989 - cases in which a person was convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges.

NEW DPIC WEB PAGES:

• Research on the Death Penalty - A collection of research that has been done on capital punishment, sorted by category.
• Statements on the Death Penalty by Supreme Court Justices
  
• Executions by County
  
• Information about the Romell Broom botched execution
• Study: 88% of criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent A recent study of leading criminologists.
• Kennedy v. Louisiana A comprehensive resource on the Supreme Court Case: Kennedy v Louisiana
• Native Americans A Basic Overview of Native Americans and the death penalty
• Those Executed Who Did Not Directly Kill the Victim Covers those who have been executed for contract murders and those executed under the law of parties.
• Death Penalty for Offenses Other Than Murder State and Federal Laws that allow Capital Punishment when no death has occurred.
• Religion and the Death Penalty
  A resource on what the religious community is saying about the death penalty.
• Student Resources
  Assists students writing reports and planning debates.
• Lethal Injection
  Covers the growing debate on the constitutionality of lethal injection.
• Women
  Updated and redesigned, this page covers women who have received the death penalty.

DPIC MATERIALS IN OTHER LANGUAGES:

En Espanol

• Detalles Sobre la Pena de Muerte: Issues and Facts about the death penalty are available on the Spanish language edition of our website.
• Hechos Sobre la Pena de Muerte(PDF): DPIC's four-page Death Penalty Fact Sheet is now available in Spanish (pdf).

Auf Deutsch

• Unschuldige und ihre Faelle in Kuerze
  DPIC's Innocence List case descriptions are available in German (pdf).

En Francais

• La Peine De Mort en Noir Et Blanc: Qui Vit, Qui Meurt, Qui Decide
  DPIC's report "The Death Penalty in Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides," translated into French by Debra Mervant (pdf).