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Executions are Up but the Sky is Not Falling
The Execution Frenzy by Death Penalty Zealots has not Translated to Increased Public Support for the Punishment
 • Robert Dunham
The Death Penalty Inherently Risks Executing Innocent People. Pennsylvania has already done it.
History shows the state cannot be trusted with the power to kill
 • Robert Dunham
Surge in U.S. Executions Exhibits Huge White-Victim Preference
DP3 Analysis Finds White-Victim Preference Masks Significant Bias Against Black Defendants
 • Robert Dunham
Spring 2025 Death Row USA: U.S. Death Row Down 7.2% in Past Year; Recent Executions Point to Growing Race-of-Victim Bias
Outlier practices continue to drive U.S. death-row developments
 • Robert Dunham
DP3 Analysis: U.S. death row experiences largest population decline in 20 years, highest percentage decline in half-century
The historic decline was fueled by landmark commutations and continued low death sentences
 • Robert Dunham
DP3 Testimony on Bill to Abolish Ohio's Death Penalty
Death Penalty Policy Project Director Robert Dunham testified before the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on December 4, 2024
 • Robert Dunham
DP3 Study: After 1,600 Executions, the Public and Police are Safer in States with No Death Penalty
If capital punishment serves a public safety purpose, having and using the death penalty should, over time, lower a state’s murder rates compared to…
 • Robert Dunham
The DP3 Substack (Death Penalty Policy Project)
The DP3 Substack (Death Penalty Policy Project)
The Death Penalty Policy Project was created by former Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham to provide cutting edge commentary and analysis of capital punishment.
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