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  • June 19, 2026

Death-Row Exonerations — Cases Involving Non-Unanimous Jury Sentencing Votes or Judicial Override of Jury Votes for Life
  • 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

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  • 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.
  • 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

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Public Safety

  • 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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