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  • 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 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

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  • 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."
  • May 15, 2024

U.S. Death Row Population Falls Below 2,300 for First Time Since 1989

14% of Death Row a Product of Non-Unanimous Verdicts or Judicial Override of Jury Votes for Life
  • April 17, 2024

DP3 Submits Statement to United Nations on U.S. Death Penalty Developments Since U.N. Resolution Calling for a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty

The Death Penalty Policy Project responded to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights' call for submissions on the Secretary-General's report to the General Assembly on its moratorium resolution
  • April 5, 2024

2024 Death Warrants and Outcomes
  • March 4, 2024

Testimony of Death Penalty Policy Project Director Robert Dunham before the Oklahoma House Judiciary (Criminal) Committee’s Interim Study on the Death Penalty
  • 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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  • 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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