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May 14, 2024 · DEATH PENALTY CENSUS. Oct 19, 2023. New Resource: Updated Death Penalty Census. DPIC’s database of more than 9, 800 death sentences imposed between the Supreme Court ruling striking down U.S. death penalty laws in 1972 and January 1, 2022 details the systemic arbitrariness, bias, and error of the modern U.S. death penalty ...
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Death Penalty Information Center. 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.
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Dec 16, 2021 · The public’s understanding of the grave dangers of wrongful capital convictions and death sentences deepened in 2021 as two innocent prisoners were exonerated more than 25 years after being wrongfully sentenced to die, and a multi-year Death Penalty Information Center review of more than 9,600 death sentences imposed since 1972 discovered 11 ...
“Death Row” provides information about people currently under a sentence of death or facing capital resentencing proceedings, including examinations of particular groups of death-row prisoners, such as women, Native Americans, and foreign nationals.