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Jurisdictions with no recent executions
Although the United States is considered a death penalty country, executions are rare or non-existent in much of the nation. 26 of 53 jurisdictions in the U.S. (50 states, the District of Columbia, the...
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NEW VOICES: Families of Victims Call for End to Death Penalty in Connecticut
On February 9, more than two dozen families of murder victims came to the Connecticut Capitol complex to urge lawmakers to repeal the death penalty because of its negative impact on families of murder...
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Connecticut Weighs Legislation to Repeal Death Penalty
Earlier in March, hearings were held in Connecticut before the House Judiciary Committee on a bill to replace the death penalty for future crimes with a sentence of life without parole. Many religious...
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Key Connecticut Committee Approves Death Penalty Repeal Bill
On April 12, the Connecticut legislature's Judiciary Committee approved (26-17) a bill to repeal the death penalty for future crimes and replace the sentence with life without parole. Supporters of the...
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NEW VOICES: Law Enforcement Officials Say Death Penalty Does Not Make Them Safer
A recent article by Terrence P. Dwyer (pictured), retired New York State Police Investigator, and George F. Kain, a police commissioner in Ridgefield, Connecticut, dismissed the notion that the death...
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NEW VOICES: Mother of Murder Victim Urges Connecticut Legislators to Repeal...
Victoria Coward, whose son Tyler (pictured) was killed when he was 18, recently petitioned Connecticut legislators to repeal the death penalty. Speaking of her son’s killer, Coward said, “In the...
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NEW RESOURCES: 2011 DEATH ROW USA Report Now Available
The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's "Death Row USA" showed a slight increase of 9 inmates in the death row population in the United States between October 1, 2010 and January 1, 2011....
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DPIC RESOURCES: New State Pages Now Available
DPIC is pleased to announce the completion of our State Information Pages for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. These state profiles provide historical and current information on the death...
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EDITORIALS: "The Random Horror of the Death Penalty"
An editorial in the Sunday edition of the New York Times on January 8 looked at recent studies pointing to the arbitrariness of the death penalty. The editorial noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had...
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STUDIES: Part II on N.Y. Times Editorial "The Random Horror of the Death...
(On January 10, DPIC posted an item about an editorial in the New York Times criticizing the arbitrariness of the death penalty. That editorial relied heavily on the research of Prof. John Donohue...
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RESOURCES: Recent Legislative Acitivity on the Death Penalty
DPIC is collecting information on pending legislation related to the death penalty. For example, at least nine states will consider bills to repeal the death penalty in 2012. In California, a...
View ArticleNEW VOICES: Victims' Family Members Voice Concerns About Death Penalty
A recent op-ed in the Litchfield (Connecticut) News highlights concerns about the death penalty as expressed by murder victims’ families. Mary Healy and Jane Caron are social work professionals who...
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Connecticut Senate Poised to Vote on Death Penalty Repeal
The Connecticut Senate is expected to vote as early as Wednesday (April 4) on a bill to replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole. The bill, which would only affect future...
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RECENT LEGISLATION: Connecticut Senate Votes to Repeal Death Penalty
On April 5, the state senate in Connecticut approved (20-16) a bill to repeal the death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life without a parole. The bill is prospective and would not affect the...
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RECENT LEGISLATION: Death Penalty Repeal Passes Second Connecticut House,...
On April 11, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed (86-62) a bill to abolish the death penalty for future crimes. The same bill passed the Connecticut Senate on April 5. Governor Dannel...
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EDITORIALS: New York Times Recommends All States to Follow Connecticut's Lead
A recent editorial in the New York Times called Connecticut's decision to repeal the death penalty part of "a growing movement against capital punishment." The editorial attributed the trend away from...
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RECENT LEGISLATION: Governor's Signature Makes Connecticut Fifth State in...
On April 25, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (pictured) signed into law a bill that replaces the death penalty with life without parole. Connecticut is the fifth state in five years, and the 17th...
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COMMENTARY: Death Penalty Climate Changing
Commentary from nationally syndicated columnist E.J. Dionne (pictured) and the New York Times reflected on the changing state of the death penalty in the U.S. in light of recent developments. Dionne...
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NEW VOICES: Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Says Death Penalty...
On May 29, the Connecticut Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of Eduardo Santiago, one of eleven men who remained on the state's death row despite the recent abolition of the death penalty for...
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Connecticut Trial To Challenge Systemic Bias in Death Sentencing
Although Connecticut abolished the death penalty for future offenses in 2012, eleven inmates remained on death row. Now an unusual trial will soon begin challenging the death sentences of seven of...
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INTERNATIONAL: Roman Colosseum Lit to Mark Connecticut's Abolition of Death...
On November 29, the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, was illuminated in honor of Connecticut's repeal of the death penalty in April of this year. The event featured former death row inmate Shujaa Graham of...
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Connecticut Supreme Court Considers Executions After Death Penalty Repeal
On April 23, the Connecticut Supreme Court will consider whether the 11 inmates who remained on the state's row after the legislature voted to repeal the death penalty in 2012 can still be executed....
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