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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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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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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.