Reports Studies and Journal Articles News Articles Books Videos, Webinars, & Podcasts Organizational Resources Letters and Testimony
Reports
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Doomed to Repeat: The Legacy of Race in Tennessee’s Contemporary Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, June 2023.
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The Death Penalty in 2022: Year End Report, Death Penalty Information Center, December 2022.
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Pandemic Murder Rates Highest in Death Penalty States, Death Penalty Information Center, November 2022.
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Deeply Rooted: How Racial History Informs Oklahoma’s Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, October 2022.
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The Death Penalty Census, Death Penalty Information Center, 2022.
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The Death Penalty in 2021: Year End Report, Death Penalty Information Center, December 2021.
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The Innocence Epidemic, Death Penalty Information Center, Feb. 2021.
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The Death Penalty in 2020: Year End Report, Death Penalty Information Center, Dec. 2020.
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Use or Threat of Death Penalty Implicated in 19 Exoneration Cases in 2019, Death Penalty Information Center, Oct. 2020.
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Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, September 2020.
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The Death Penalty in 2019: Year End Report, Death Penalty Information Center, December 2019.
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Capital Crimes: State and Federal Cases, Annual Report, Ohio Office of the Attorney General, 2019.
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The State of Capital Punishment, National Conference of State Legislatures, July 2019.
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Capital Punishment, 2017: Selected Findings, Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 2019.
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The Death Penalty in 2018: Year End Report, The Death Penalty Information Center, December 2018.
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Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania: The Report of the Task Force and Advisory Committee, Joint State Government Commission, June 2018.
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Behind the Curtain: Secrecy and the Death Penalty in the United States, Death Penalty Information Center, November 2018.
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Prisoners on Ohio’s Execution List Defined by Intellectual Impairment, Mental Illness, Trauma, and Young Age, Fair Punishment Project, August 2017.
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Battle Scars: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, November 2015.
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Capital Punishment, 2012 - Statistical Tables, Bureau of Justice Statistics, May 15, 2014.
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Irreversible Error: Recommended Reforms for Preventing and Correcting Efforts in the Administration of Capital Punishment, The Constitution Project, 2014.
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The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases At Enormous Costs to All, Death Penalty Information Center, October 2013.
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Tinkering with Life: A Look at the Inappropriateness of Life Without Parole as an Alternative to the Death Penalty, The Sentencing Project, January 2013.
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Maryland's Death Penalty, Maryland Citizens Against State Executions, February 2012.
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Facts about the Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, September 2011.
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Struck by Lightning: The Continuing Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty, Thirty-Five Years After Its Re-instatement, Death Penalty Information Center, July 2011.
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Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2010 - The Year in Review, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, December 2010.
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Sixth and Final Report, Illinois Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee, October 28, 2010.
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Final Declaration of the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, Geneva, February 26, 2010.
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Death Penalty Overview: Ten Reasons Why Capital Punishment is Flawed Policy, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, 2009.
Studies and Journal Articles
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Frank R. Baumgartner, A Statistical Overview of the Kentucky Death Penalty, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 2022.
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Sheri Lynn Johnson, John H. Blume, and Brendan Van Winkle, Atkins v. Virginia at Twenty: Still Adaptive Deficits, Still in the Developmental Period, 28 Wash. & Lee J. Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 1 (2022).
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Aliza Cover, Narrowing Death Eligibility in Idaho: An Empirical and Constitutional Analysis, 57 Idaho Law Review 559 (2021).
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Scott Phillips and Trent Steidley, A Systemic Lottery: The Texas Death Penalty, 1976 to 2016, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2020.
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Alex Lundberg, On the Public Finance of Capital Punishment, Department of Economics; West Virginia University, April 2019.
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Aliza B Kaplan, Peter A Collins, and Venetia L. Mayhew, Oregon's Death Penalty: A Cost Analysis, Lewis & Clark Law School and Seattle University Department of Criminal Justice, November 16, 2016.
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Katherine Beckett and Heather Evans, Race, Death, and Justice; Capital Sentencing in Washington State, 1981-2014, Columbia Journal of Race and Law Vol. 6:2 (2016).
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Justin F. Marceau, Sam Kamin, and Wanda Foglia​, Death Eligibility in Colorado: Many are Called, Few are Chosen, (January 31, 2013). U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-08.
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Ray Paternoster, Racial Disparity in the Case of Duane Edward Buck, University of Maryland, December 2012.
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Nicholas Petersen and Mona Lynch, Prosecutorial Discretion, Hidden Costs, and The Death Penalty: The Case of Los Angeles County, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 102 No. 4, October 23, 2012.
News Articles
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Bias in the justice system is real, and the death penalty reveals it by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Los Angeles Times, March 2019.
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The death penalty is unworthy of America by Editorial Board, The Washington Post, January 2020.
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The overwhelming evidence against the death penalty by Austin Sarat, The New Republic, May 2017.
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The case against the death penalty, American Civil Liberties Union, revised 2012.
Books
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A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays by Marc Bookman, 2021.
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah, 2021.
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Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned (2nd Ed.) by Richard S. Jaffe, 2020.
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Arbitrary Death: A Prosecutor’s Perspective on the Death Penalty by Rick Unklesbay, 2019.
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Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina by Seth Kotch, 2019.
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Surviving Execution: A Miscarriage of Justice and the Fight to End the Death Penalty by Ian Woods, 2018.
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton, 2018.
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Not in Our Name, compilation of essays, 2018.
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Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty by Frank Baumgartner, Marty Davidson, Kaneesha Johnson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Colin Wilson, 2017.
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End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice by Brandon L. Garret, 2017.
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The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado by Michael Radelet, 2017.
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Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement by Robert J. Norris, 2017.
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Against the Death Penalty, edited by John Bessler, 2016.
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Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases by Robin Conley, 2016.
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, 2015.
Videos, Webinars, & Podcasts
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The Criminal Docket Episode 64: Interview with Alabama Criminal Defense Attorney Richard S. Jaffe, NACDL, April 2021.
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The Criminal Docket Episode 56: Forthcoming Documentary: "In the Executioner's Shadow", 2018.
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Discussions with DPIC - Professor Bharat Malkani Explores the Relationship Between Slavery and Slavery-Abolition Strategies and the Modern U.S. Death Penalty
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Discussions with DPIC - Racial Discrimination in Death Penalty Jury Selection
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Discussions with DPIC - The Duane Buck Case
