by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 8, 2021 | News
Misconduct by police and prosecutors has created an “innocence epidemic” on death row, according to a report published by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) in mid-February. Since 1993, DPIC has tracked the cases of individuals who were sentenced to death but...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 21, 2021 | News
The Trump administration made headlines recently for reaching a grim milestone: Enacting more federal executions than all 50 U.S. states combined for the first time in U.S. history. Trump’s summer reversal of a 17-year hiatus on federal executions and his decision to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 13, 2020 | News
The number of executions and new capital punishment sentences approached all-time lows in 2019, according to a Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) report published Dec. 17. Death row inmates declined by 82 in 2019, and, continuing a five-year trend, fewer than 30...
