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discuss your state’s particulars on the issue of the death penalty. This website is a great place to start in compiling facts for current statistics of death row offenders:
The state I must research is: Wyoming
Be sure you discuss when the last execution was, if there is a governor’s moratorium on execution, and what is the status of any pending executions. If your state does not have the death penalty, did it ever have the death penalty and when was it removed from the state’s law.
Note that the website has a general information tab as the home page, but there is a section for state-by-state information.
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DPIC REPORTS
Sep 15, 2020
New DPIC ReportEnduring Injustice: the Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty
The report examines the historical role race has played in the death penalty, its continuing pervasive impact on every stage of the death penalty process, and why the death penalty must be included in any meaningful discussion of criminal legal reform.
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FEDERAL EXECUTIONS
Jul 20, 2020
DPIC Special Report: The Federal Government Restarts Federal Executions Amid Procedural Concerns and aPandemic
The federal government executed Daniel Lewis Lee the morning of July 14, 2020. His execution was the first conducted by the federal government in seventeen years, and it was followed closely by the executions of Wesley Ira Purkey and Dustin Lee Honken.
READ THE REPORT HERE
FEDERAL EXECUTIONS
Jul 13, 2020
DPIC Statement on Federal Executions
The Death Penalty Information Center does not take aposition on the death penalty. However, we have been critical of the way in which it is administered. The federal governments administration of the death penalty leaves much to be criticized.
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MID-YEAR REPORT
Jul 02, 2020
DPIC MID-YEAR REVIEW: Pandemic and Continuing Historic Decline Produce Record-Low Death Penalty Use in First Half of2020
The combination of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the continuing broad national decline in the use of capital punishment produced historically low numbers of new death sentences and executions in the first half of2020.
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PODCASTS
Jul 20, 2020
New Podcast: ACLU National Prison Project Director David Fathi Discusses Death-Row Conditions, the Move Away from Solitary Confinement, and COVID-19in U.S. Prisons
In the July 2020 episode of Discussions With DPIC, David Fathi, the director of the ACLUs National Prison Project, speaks with DPICs Managing Director Anne Holsinger about death-row conditions across the country.
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DPIC SPECIAL REPORTS
Jun 22, 2020
DPIC Analysis: At Least 1,300 Prisoners are on U.S. Death Rows in Violation of U.S. Human Rights Obligations
At least 1,300 prisoners have been incarcerated on U.S. death rows for more than two decades, in violation of U.S. human rights obligations, aDeath Penalty Information Center analysis of death-row demographic data hasfound.
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Race
Sep 15, 2020
DPIC Releases Major New Report on Race and the U.S. Death Penalty
The Death Penalty Information Center has released amajor new report on race and the U.S. death penalty, providing an in-depth look at the historical role race has played in the death penalty and detailing the pervasive impact rac
Innocence
Sep 14, 2020
Black Legislators, Legal Associations, Faith Leaders, and Community Groups Call for DNA Testing/Intellectual Disability Hearing that Could Take Pervis Payne Off Tennessees DeathRow
Leaders in the Tennessee African-American community are urging Governor Bill Lee and the state and federal courts to halt the execution of aBlack death-row prisoner who may be both innocent and intellectuallydi
Sentencing Data
Sep 14, 2020
News BriefFlorida Judge Imposes Death Sentence on Granville Ritchie, Nations Third Death Sentence Since Pandemic
NEWS (9/11/20)Florida: Nearly one year after aHillsborough County jury recommended that Granville Ritchie be sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a9year-old girl, Judge Michelle Sisco formally imposed the death penalty inth
Clemency
Sep 11, 2020
Years After Their Death Sentences Were Commuted, Former Death-Row Prisoners in Illinois, Ohio Are Released
Two former death-row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by governors in Illinois and Ohio more than adecade ago have been released from custody. Renaldo Hudson (pictured) was oneof
Innocence
Sep 10, 2020
Eight Years After Exoneration, Court Declares Joe DAmbrosio Wrongfully Imprisoned
Eight years after his exoneration from death row, an Ohio trial court judge has declared that Joe DAmbrosio (pictured) was wrongfully imprisoned. The August 31, 2020 ruling by Cuyahoga County C
Arbitrariness
Sep 09, 2020
Texas Death-Row Prisoner Seeks New Trial Citing Hidden Evidence that Prosecutor was Paid to Work for Trial Judge in SameCase
Texas death-row prisoner Clinton Young (pictured), who came within days of execution in October 2017 while prosecutors hid evidence of his innocence, has filed aclaim for anew trial based upon previously undiscl
Innocence
Sep 08, 2020
Curtis Flowers Exonerated in Mississippi After Attorney General Drops All Charges
After six trials marred by prosecutorial misconduct and racial prejudice, drawing ascathing rebuke from the U.S. Supreme Court, former Mississippi death-row prisoner Curtis Flowers (pictured with the ankle monito
Upcoming Executions
Sep 08, 2020
News BriefNew Set of Reprieves Push Back First Three Ohio Executions of 2021 Until2023
NEWS (9/4/20)Ohio: Citing an unwillingness to endanger public health, Governor Mike DeWine has issued anew set of reprieves that will push back the first three executions scheduled in Ohio for 2021 until at least 2023. Ina
Intellectual Disability
Sep 04, 2020
California Legislature Passes Racial Justice Package Affecting Death-Penalty Practices
In the closing days of its 2020 legislative session, the California legislature passed atrio of racial justice reform bills expected to reduce the influence of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic bias in the administration of thed
Public Opinion
Sep 03, 2020
DPIC Analysis: Federal Execution Spree Out of Step with U.S. Death Penalty Trends and Attitudes
At atime in which the United States as awhole and individual states and counties have continued their long-term movement away from the death penalty, the federal governments current execution spree has established it as an outlier jurisdiction
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News Brief Florida Judge Imposes Death Sentence on Granville Ritchie, Nation’s Third Death Sentence Since Pandemic
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For every nine people executed in the United States in the modern era of the death penalty, one person on death row has been exonerated.
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