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Jul 1, 2024 · 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.
Nov 17, 2017 · This page is updated each business day by 12 pm Eastern Time. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
State by State. The Death Penalty Information Center provides essential statistics like execution numbers, death row population, and murder rates for each state. We also provide historical background on the death penalty in each state, including abolitionist states.
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to the death penalty. Founded in 1990, DPIC is primarily focused on the application of capital punishment in the United States.
The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2021 Year End Report was released on December 16, 2021, and received extensive coverage in hundreds of print, online, television, and radio news outlets across the United States and around the world.
ExecutionWatch, a radio show with live coverage of every Texas execution. Texas After Violence Project. List of current Texas death row prisoners, from the Texas Tribune. Faces on death row, a project of the Texas Tribune, featuring photographs and demographic data for Texas’ death row prisoners.
Jul 19, 2021 · As of July 2021, the death penalty is authorized by 27 states and the federal government – including the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. military – and prohibited in 23 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Since 1973, 199 individuals who spent time on death row have been exonerated, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. This includes 18 people convicted and sentenced to death in Texas.
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.
Dec 1, 2023 · Twenty-four executions have been carried out in 2023 — five more than last year, the Death Penalty Information Center says. Meanwhile, 50% of Americans say the death penalty is applied...
