Death Penalty Information Center

A June 30 arti­cle by Pamela Colloff, co-pub­lished in *ProPublica* and *The New York Times Magazine*, inves­ti­gates Florida’s record-set­ting pace of exe­cu­tions over the past 18 months, even as the rest of the coun­try large­ly ​“aban­dons” the death penal­ty. Ms. Colloff uses data from the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) to empha­size Florida’s out­lier sta­tus, whil...

**Introduction** False state­ments by gov­ern­ment offi­cials. Media wit­ness­es banned from view­ing exe­cu­tions. New laws passed to evade judi­cial review. During the first six months of 2026, the Death Penalty Information Center doc­u­ment­ed new efforts to con­ceal crit­i­cal details about the death penal­ty — even as some gov­ern­ment offi­cials sought to increase and exp...

In a let­ter dat­ed June 25, 2026, a group of nine Tennessee Republican sen­a­tors called on Governor Bill Lee to com­mis­sion an inde­pen­dent review of the failed exe­cu­tion of Tony Carruthers, to order the cor­rec­tion of ​“every defi­cien­cy” found in this review, and to make infor­ma­tion about the exe­cu­tion team pub­licly avail­able ​“so that the Department \[of Correct...

On June 29, 2026, the Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed a low­er court’s deci­sion find­ing Jimmie Duncan fac­tu­al­ly inno­cent and vacat­ing his first-degree mur­der con­vic­tion and death sen­tence. Mr. Duncan was sen­tenced to death for the 1993 death of his girlfriend’s tod­dler, Haley Oliveaux, large­ly based on faulty bite mark evi­dence. In April 2025, Louisiana District ...

In the July 2026 episode of *12:01: The Death Penalty in Context*, DPI’s Executive Director Robin M. Maher speaks with Samuel Spital, Associate Director Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). To mark the 50th anniver­sary of the Supreme Court’s deci­sion in *Gregg v. Georgia,* they explore the his­to­ry of the land­mark case, the piv­otal role played by the NAACP Legal D...