Innocence February 25, 2025 U.S. Supreme Court Rules Prosecutors Violated Ethical Responsibilities in Richard Glossip’s Case, Orders a New Trial Sentencing Alternatives February 11, 2025 State Spotlight: California Death Row Shrinks Sharply in 2024, Driven by the Resentencing of At Least 45 People to Life Sentences or Less Race February 7, 2025 Judge …

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

DPIC Releases Update to Death Row Census The Death Penalty Information Center has updat­ed its Death Penalty Census, a data­base of every death sen­tence imposed since 1972 . The data­base now con­tains infor­ma­tion accu­rate as of January 1 , 2022 , inclu­sive of the 50 th year of the mod­ern death penal­ty.

2023年11月13日 · On August 25, 2023, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall asked the state Supreme Court to set a date for Kenneth Smith to be exe­cut­ed using nitro­gen hypox­ia, a method that has nev­er been used in any state.The deci­sion to use this method comes after Alabama botched sev­er­al exe­cu­tions. Since 2018, when Alabama ini­tial­ly autho­rized the use …

In order to be includ­ed on DPIC ’s list of death-row exon­er­a­tions, a per­son who has been con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death must either receive a full par­don on grounds of inno­cence, or have his or her con­vic­tion over­turned and then either be acquit­ted or …

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

What DPIC Offers. This sec­tion con­tains sum­maries of each of the main cost stud­ies on the death penal­ty and links to many of the entire stud­ies. In addi­tion, DPI has pre­pared a num­ber of reports that relate to the ques­tion of costs and to the opin­ions of police chiefs and oth­er experts in …

2023年12月1日 · Note: In March 2023, DPIC learned of one addi­tion­al death sen­tence that was imposed in 2022: Leo Boatman, a white male defen­dant, was sen­tenced to death on November 9, 2022 in Bradford County, Florida, for the mur­der of Billy Chapman, a white male.

2025年2月4日 · Number(s) Description Events Type Status; AB 1071 (2/20/2025) Modifies and adds to procedures for relief under the 2020 Racial Justice Act for individuals who have actions pending before the trial or appellate court, who are incarcerated, or post-incarceration.

2023年12月1日 · The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a nation­al non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion whose mis­sion is to serve the media, pol­i­cy­mak­ers, and the gen­er­al pub­lic with data and analy­sis on issues con­cern­ing cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment and the peo­ple it affects.