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The Death Penalty in 2025: Majority of Capital Juries in 2025 Rejected Death Sentences
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Official account of the Death Penalty Information Center, serving the media and public with analysis & information concerning capital punishment
- #TheDeathPenaltyIn2020—During the 2020 presidential campaign, citing the more than 170 people exonerated from U.S. death rows since 1973, @JoeBiden pledged to work to end the federal #deathpenalty.
- DPIC Celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth—Frederick Douglass, one of the country's preeminent opponents of slavery, also argued forcefully against capital punishment, which he called "a mockery of justice." #deathpenalty
- Our new report on race and the #deathpenalty, Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty, is now out. You can read it here: deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-rese… #DPICRaceReport
- 39 new death sentences were imposed in the U.S. in 2017, the second fewest in the last 45 years. This was the seventh consecutive year in which fewer than 100 death sentences were imposed. #DPIC2017YearEndReport #deathpenalty
- #TheDeathPenaltyIn2021—By the close of 2021, 36 states had either abolished the death penalty or had not carried out an execution in at least ten years.
- BREAKING: The 11th Circuit has just granted Kenneth Eugene Smith a stay of execution. The state can still appeal to the US Supreme Court. @RDunhamDPIC #deathpenalty
- President Biden is the first American president to have made abolition of the federal #deathpenalty part of his campaign platform.#TheDeathPenaltyIn2020—During the 2020 presidential campaign, citing the more than 170 people exonerated from U.S. death rows since 1973, @JoeBiden pledged to work to end the federal #deathpenalty.
- A big thank you to all of you who read the DPIC twitter feed. We have just reached 10,000 followers. We remain committed to providing truthful, accurate information and analysis about the death penalty, as we work towards reaching additional followers.
- The six death-sentenced prisoners exonerated in ’15 spent a combined 112 years in prison due to wrongful convictions
- "Our constitution invites us to abolish the death penalty... It forbids cruel and unusual punishment." - @russfeingold
- DPIC Celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth 2023 —Kwame Ajamu was exonerated in 2014, 39 years after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. He now works to end the #deathpenalty as Board Chair of the death-row activist group, Witness to Innocence. @WTIUSA
- On September 15, DPIC will release our new report on race and the #deathpenalty, Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty.
- At least four prisoners were executed in 2017 despite substantial concerns that they may have been innocent. #DPIC2017YearEndReport #deathpenalty
