All Episodes

Sam Spital on 50 Years Since Gregg v. Georgia and Examining the Decision's Legacy and Unfulfilled Promises

Naomi Yavneh Klos on Gas Executions, Holocaust Memory, and Common Ground

Sherrerd Hartness on Victims’ Needs, Trauma, and the Limits of the Death Penalty

Elizabeth Vartkessian on Mitigation and "The Deserving"

DPI’s Taylor Bonner and U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty’s Furonda Brasfield on the Racial History of the Death Penalty

Fair and Just Prosecution’s Aramis Ayala on the Death Penalty, Prosecutorial Discretion, and Conviction Integrity

Experts Discuss New DPI Report on Veterans and the Death Penalty

Maha Jweied of The Responsible Business Initiative for Justice Discusses Intersection of Business and the Legal System

Katherine Judson of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences Speaks on Flawed Forensics and Robert Roberson

Florida Attorney and Researcher Melanie Kalmanson on Recent Developments in Florida's Death Penalty

Journalists Reflect on the Challenges and Importance of Media Reporting on the Death Penalty

Author Corinna Barrett Lain on the “Untold Story” of Lethal Injection

Experts Discuss the Legacy of Roper v. Simmons

Sabrina Butler-Smith on Wrongful Convictions and Motherhood

The Past, Present, and Future of the California Racial Justice Act

The Death Penalty in 2024

Earwitness Podcast Creator Beth Shelburne on Toforest Johnson’s Case

Professor Steve Vladeck on the Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Shift

Carine Williams of the Innocence Project Discusses Death Penalty, Innocence, and ‘the Function of Freedom’

Legal Fellow Leah Roemer on the Politicization of the Death Penalty

Attorney Jessica Sutton on the Unique Challenges of LGBTQ+ Capital Defendants

Discussions with DPIC: Lamont Hunter on His Wrongful Conviction and Release

Professor Elisabeth Semel on the Implications of Batson v. Kentucky and California’s Capital Punishment System

Retired Judge Elsa Alcala on the Death Penalty in Texas

Shedding Light on Underreported Stories of Incarceration and Death Row — conversation with Keri Blakinger

Life After Death Row with Anthony Graves

Classifying Capital Punishment as Torture with John Bessler

Gender and the Death Penalty with Sandra Babcock

How A British Charity Works to Assist US Capital Defenders

Evangelical Pastor Rich Nathan Discusses How a “Culture of Life” Informs His Opposition to the Death Penalty

Dr. Roya Boroumand discusses capital punishment in Iran

Kirk Bloodsworth, Thirty Years After His Exoneration

Legacy of Race in Tennessee’s Contemporary Death Penalty with Tiana Herring

American Enterprise Institute’s Dr. Sally Satel Explains Why People with Severe Mental Illness Should Not Be Eligible for the Death Penalty

Ron McAndrew, Former Florida Warden Who Presided Over Executions

Protecting Especially Vulnerable Defendants from the Death Penalty

Former Prison Superintendent Frank Thompson on How Executions Affect Corrections Officers

Georgetown Racial Justice Institute Director Diann Rust-Tierney on Reconceptualizing the U.S. Death Penalty as a Violation of Fundamental Human Rights

DPIC’s New Report on the Racial History of Oklahoma’s Death Penalty

Former Governor Brad Henry and Former U.S. Magistrate Judge Andy Lester, co-Chairs of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission, Call for Halt to Executions

The DPIC Death Penalty Census

35 Years After McCleskey v. Kemp, Prof. Alexis Hoag Discusses the Decision’s Legacy

Prof. Meredith Rountree on What Influences Death Penalty Jurors' Moral Decisionmaking

Rep. Renny Cushing on Empowering Crime Survivors and Repealing New Hampshire's Death Penalty

Julius Jones’ Long Road On and Off Oklahoma’s Death Row, and What Comes Next in His Case

Contra Costa County, California District Attorney Diana Becton on Fair and Just Legal Reform and Ending the Death Penalty

Republican State Representative Jean Schmidt on Her Efforts to Abolish the Death Penalty in Ohio

Daniel Chen of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Discusses Freedom of Religion in the Execution Chamber

Professor Frank Baumgartner on Death-Penalty Data, Public Opinion, and Capital Punishment as a “Failed Experiment”

Rethinking Public Safety, A Conversation with Executive Director of Fair and Just Prosecution, Miriam Krinsky

Capital Defense Lawyer Marc Bookman Discusses His New Book and the Systemic Defects that Have Sent the Death Penalty into 'A Descending Spiral'

Rethinking Public Safety: A Conversation with Former Nevada Prison Doctor, Dr. Karen Gedney

Rethinking Public Safety: A Conversation with Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro

Ethical-Design Advocate Raphael Sperry on Why the American Institute of Architects Banned Members From Designing Death Chambers

Carine Williams of the Innocence Project Discusses Death Penalty, Innocence, and ‘the Function of Freedom’

Injustice in Virginia: The Case of the “Martinsville 7”

Anesthesiologist Dr. Joel Zivot on What Prisoner Autopsies Tell Us About Lethal Injection

Gretchen Engel on the Racist Roots Report from the Center for Death Penalty Litigation

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan on Commuting Death Row and His Journey from Death-Penalty Supporter to Abolitionist

Native American Rights Fund Lawyer Joel Williams on Tribal Sovereignty and the U.S. Death Penalty

ACLU Prison Project Director David Fathi Discusses Death-Row Conditions and COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons

Henderson Hill and the North Carolina Racial Justice Act

Capital Defense Lawyer Kelley Henry on Death Penalty Litigation During a Pandemic

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann on Colorado’s Death-Penalty Repeal

Hannah Cox on Conservative Opposition to the Death Penalty

He May Be Innocent and Intellectually Disabled, But Rocky Myers Faces Execution in Alabama

The DPIC 2019 Year End Report

“Unrequited Innocence” with Rob Warden and John Seasly

Junk Science and Wrongful Convictions: James Rytting Discusses the Case of Larry Swearingen

Interview with Clemency filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu

Rep. Renny Cushing on Empowering Crime Survivors and Repealing New Hampshire's Death Penalty

Interview with Trial By Fire Director Edward Zwick

The Effect of Race on Sentencing Decisions in Washington

Behind the Curtain

Year End Report 2018

The New Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty and Human Dignity

Professor Bharat Malkani Explores the Relationship Between Slavery and Slavery-Abolition Strategies and the Modern U.S. Death Penalty

Professor Keelah Williams Explains Research Linking “Resource Scarcity” to Support for the Death Penalty

Authors of Death-Penalty Study Discuss Tennessee’s “Death Penalty Lottery”

Professor Carol Steiker, Author of Courting Death, Offers an Inside Look at the Supreme Court and the History and Future of America’s Death Penalty

Columnist Nicholas Kristof on The Framing of Kevin Cooper

Culture of Conviction

Racial Discrimination in Death-Penalty Jury Selection

Missouri Attorney Discusses Winning Life Sentence in Federal Prison-Killing Case

The Courts Struck Down Florida’s Death-Sentencing Law in 2016. What’s Happened Since?

The Decline of the Death Penalty over the Past 25 Years, with Brandon Garrett

Discussions With DPIC — Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder? Exploring murder rates, killings of police officers, and the death penalty

After more than a three-year hiatus, Ohio plans to carry out the first of 27 scheduled executions

The Duane Buck Case

Lawyers for the Condemned

Arkansas' plan to execute seven prisoners over an 11-day period

Discussions With DPIC — Women and the Death Penalty, with Professor Mary Atwell

Innocence and Prosecutorial Misconduct

2016 Year End Report

Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty, With Law Professor John Blume

Law professor and author John Bessler

Jeffrey Wood and the Texas Law of Parties