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  • 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
  • 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

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  • 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.
  • December 11, 2023

Interview with Death Penalty Action

A review of 2023 and a look at the state of the U.S. Death Penalty in 2024
  • October 23, 2023

Why two recent executions toll the death knell for Florida’s attempt to expand its death penalty to non-lethal child sex offenses… if the rule of law means anything in Florida.

The state constitution's 'conformity clause' provides a floor as well a ceiling to the state's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment
  • September 21, 2023

Podcast Interview with KYW Philadelphia

DP3 Director Robert Dunham Speaks With KYW Newsradio Reporter for the Station's "KYW Newsradio InDepth" Podcast

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  • 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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