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January 29, 2025
DP3 Analysis: U.S. death row experiences largest population decline in 20 years, highest percentage decline in half-century
The historic decline was fueled by landmark commutations and continued low death sentences
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
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January 31, 2025
News Release—DP3 Analysis: U.S. Death Row Experienced Largest Population Decline in 20 Years in 2024, Largest Percentage Decline in Nearly 50 Years
January 29, 2025
DP3 Analysis: U.S. death row experiences largest population decline in 20 years, highest percentage decline in half-century
The historic decline was fueled by landmark commutations and continued low death sentences
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
June 30, 2024
Death Row USA, Winter 2024
What the January 1, 2024 death-row census tells us about execution discrimination and patterns of death-penalty decline
May 21, 2024
Unfit for a Dog: A ‘Textbook’ Case of the Unacceptability of Nitrogen Suffocation Executions
"Nitrogen suffocation is not the swift, painless execution its proponents claim it will be. It is brutal and inhumane, so much so that veterinarians reject its use to euthanize animals."
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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.
