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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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  • 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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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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