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Innocence
Feb 25, 2022
New DPIC Podcast: Julius Jones’ Long Road On and Off Oklahoma’s Death Row, and What Comes Next in His Case
In the February 2022 episode of Discussions with DPIC, federal public defender, Amanda Bass, and Justice for Julius advocate Cece Jones-Davis (pictured) speak with Death Penalty Information Center Managin…
Deterrence
Feb 24, 2022
Despite Ineffectiveness as Public-Safety Tool, Anti-Abolition Lawmakers Push Bills to Reinstate Death Penalty for Killings of Police Officers
Despite the absence of evidence that the death penalty protects police or promotes public safety, lawmakers in several states that have abolished capital punishment have introduced bills to reinstate capital punishment for the murders of police of…
Mental Illness
Feb 23, 2022
Kentucky and South Dakota Advance Bills to Bar Death Penalty for People with Severe Mental Illness
Bills that would exempt individuals with severe mental illness from the death penalty have taken major steps forward in the Kentucky and and South Dakota legislatures. The Kentucky House of Representatives voted o…
Methods of Execution
Feb 22, 2022
Arizona Jewish Community Sues to Bar State from Executing Prisoners with Gas Nazis Used in Holocaust
Members of the Arizona Jewish community have filed suit to bar the state from executing prisoners in its gas chamber, using the same substance employed by the Nazis during the Holocaust to murder more than one million people. …
Arbitrariness
Feb 21, 2022
56 Prosecutors Issue Joint Statement Calling for End of ‘Broken’ Death Penalty
Calling capital punishment in the U.S. “broken,” 56 elected prosecutors from across the country have issued a joint statement urging called for systemic changes to end the death penalty nationwide. As an initial step, the prosecutors pledged to no…
News Brief
Feb 19, 2022
Ohio Governor Issues Three More Reprieves, Reschedules Executions for 2025
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has issued reprieves of three more executions that had been set to occur in 2022, rescheduling them for 2025. In executive orders issued February 18, 2022, DeWine halted the executions of
Executions Overview
Feb 18, 2022
Oklahoma County Becomes Nation’s Third Most Prolific County Executioner as State Puts Intellectually Impaired Teen Offender to Death
When Oklahoma executed Gilbert Postelle on February 17, 2022, it came with a dubious distinction. The intellectually impaired man who was 18 years old at the time of his offense became the 44th person …
Recent Legislative Activity
Feb 17, 2022
Effort to Repeal and Replace Utah’s Death Penalty Fails on 6 – 5 Vote in State House Committee
A high-profile Republican-led effort to abolish the death penalty in Utah has failed in committee by a single vote. State representatives in the House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee voted 6 – 5 on February 14, 2022 n…
Lethal Injection
Feb 16, 2022
Deadline to Seek Execution of Zane Floyd Before Lethal-Injection Drugs Expire Passes in Nevada
Nevada prosecutors have failed to meet a deadline to obtain a death warrant to execute Zane Floyd before its supply of a key lethal-injection drug expires, indefinitely extending the near 16-year pause between exe…
Military
Feb 15, 2022
Department of Justice Reverses Course, Rejects Use of Evidence Obtained by Torture in Guantánamo Death Penalty Case
In what one analyst described as “an important step to restore the rule of law,” the U.S. Department of Justice has pledged not to use statements obtained by torture in its Guantánamo Military Commissions prosecut…