Death Penalty Information Center
Features the latest news, court rulings and information relating to the death penalty.
Author: The news feed is published by the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit.
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Recent Posts from Death Penalty Information Center
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NEW VOICES: Prominent Conservative Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium
Richard A. Viguerie, who has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement" by The Nation magazine, recently wrote an op-ed in which he discusses how his conservative ideology led him to…
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NEW RESOURCES: DPIC's 2008 Article Index is Available
Each year, DPIC collects relevant death penalty articles that have appeared in print and on media Web sites. Our collection certainly does not contain all such articles, nor do we claim that it represents the…
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DNA Evidence Leads to Release of Texas Man Who Spent Four Years on Death Row
A man originally sentenced to death for four murders in Texas has been released on his own recognizance after new DNA evidence was discovered. Robert Springsteen and co-defendant Michael Scott were released by State District…
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COSTS: North Carolina Spent At Least $36 Million Extra Pursuing Capital Cases over 7 Years
According to a study by the Independent Weekly, North Carolina conservatively spent at least $36 million dollars by seeking the death penalty instead of life in prison without parole over the past 7 years, just…
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NEW RESOURCES: DPIC Offers Podcasts on Costs, Clemency, and Arbitrariness
If you would like to listen to a brief but informative discussion of key death penalty issues, try DPIC’s newest resource--Podcasts. The most recent episode of this educational series explores the issue of the Costs…
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Top Prison Doctor's Resignation Illustrates Ethical Conflict with Lethal Injection Protocol
Washington’s former medical director for the Department of Corrections, Dr. Marc Stern, recently resigned from his post because of an ethichal conflict with his role in supervising those who carried out executions. For example, the…
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BOOKS: Lethal Rejection--Stories on Crime and Punishment
A new book, Lethal Rejection: Stories on Crime and Punishment, edited and written in part by American University criminologist Robert Johnson and student Sonia Tabriz, features an array of fiction and poetry on crime and…
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ARBITRARINESS: A Death Penalty Prosecution Instead Settles with a Short Sentence After Misconduct is Revealed
A prosecutor’s misconduct related to a Kentucky capital murder case led the state to accept a plea bargain with the defendant in which he now faces a sentence of 10 years with the possibility of…
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Supreme Court Rejects Due Process Right to DNA Testing After Trial
In a 5-4 ruling on June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower federal court ruling holding that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees a convicted inmate the right to a…
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Indiana Prosecutors Say "We're running out of death row inmates," Citing High Costs of Death Penalty
Indiana is sentencing fewer people to death and executing at its slowest pace in 15 years. It has gone two years without an execution for the first time since the mid-1990’s. "We're running out of…