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  • 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
  • June 30, 2025

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

DP3 Analysis Finds White-Victim Preference Masks Significant Bias Against Black Defendants
  • May 8, 2025

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

Outlier practices continue to drive U.S. death-row developments

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  • 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
  • June 30, 2025

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

DP3 Analysis Finds White-Victim Preference Masks Significant Bias Against Black Defendants
  • May 8, 2025

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

Outlier practices continue to drive U.S. death-row developments
  • 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

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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.
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