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The Death Penalty Policy Project

Providing cutting edge data, commentary, and analysis of capital punishment

Death Penalty Policy Project Statement on the Posthumous Exoneration of Tommy Lee Walker

NEW POLL:  PENNSYLVANIANS OVERWHELMINGLY PREFER LIFE OVER THE DEATH PENALTY AS PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER

The Death Penalty Inherently Risks Executing Innocent People. Pennsylvania has already done it.

Surge in U.S. Executions Exhibits Huge White-Victim Preference

Spring 2025 Death Row USA: U.S. Death Row Down 7.2% in Past Year; Recent Executions Point to Growing Race-of-Victim Bias

Recent News

  • January 21, 2026

Death Penalty Policy Project Statement on the Posthumous Exoneration of Tommy Lee Walker

  • October 8, 2025

NEW POLL:  PENNSYLVANIANS OVERWHELMINGLY PREFER LIFE OVER THE DEATH PENALTY AS PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER

  • July 2, 2025

The Death Penalty Inherently Risks Executing Innocent People. Pennsylvania has already done it.

History shows the state cannot be trusted with the power to kill
  • November 18, 2024

DP3 Study: After 1,600 Executions, the Public and Police are Safer in States with No Death Penalty

  • July 22, 2024

DP3 Analysis: The Death Penalty Does Not Deter Mass Shootings

80% of the Deadliest U.S. Mass Shootings Were Committed in Death-Penalty Jurisdictions and Accounted for 84% of the Deaths from the Worst of the Worst Shootings
  • January 11, 2024

DP3 Analysis: Death Penalty States are Weakest in Nation on Gun Safety

Data from Everytown for Gun Safety rebuts notion that capital punishment has value as an instrument of public safety.

Spotlight on: Public Safety

The Death Penalty Policy was founded in July 2023. The DP3 website is under construction, and content for the site is being developed and will be added over time.