Facts about the Death Penalty

The Death Penalty Information Center has available more extensive reports on a variety of issues, including: 

• "Doomed to Repeat: The Legacy of Race in Tennessee's Contemporary Death Penalty" (June 2023) 

• "The Death Penalty in 2022: Year-End Report" (December 2022) 

• "Deeply Rooted: How Racial History Informs Oklahoma's Death Penalty" (October 2022) 

• "DPIC Special Report: The Innocence Epidemic" (February 2021) 

• "Enduring Injustice: the Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty" (September 2020) 

• "Behind the Curtain: Secrecy and the Death Penalty in the United States" (November 2018) 

• "Battle Scars: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty" (November 2015) 

• "The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All" (October 2013) 

• "Struck By Lightning: The Continuing Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty 35 Years After Its Reinstatement in 1976" (June 2011) 

• "Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis" (October 2009) 

• "A Crisis of Confidence: Americans' Doubts About the Death Penalty" (2007) 

• "Blind Justice: Juries Deciding Life and Death with Only Half the Truth" (2005)

Updated every month, this 4-page summary covers executions, death row, and much more (in PDF format). 

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