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

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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

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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

2024 Death Warrants and Outcomes

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

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

Interview with Death Penalty Action

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.

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Public Safety

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

DP3 Analysis: The Death Penalty Does Not Deter Mass Shootings

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

Featured News

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

All Entries

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

2024 Death Warrants and Outcomes

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

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

Interview with Death Penalty Action

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.

Spotlight on:Public Safety

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

DP3 Analysis: The Death Penalty Does Not Deter Mass Shootings

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

Spotlight on:
Public Safety