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Justices side with Texas death row inmate seeking DNA testing to show he shouldn’t be executed
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Justices side with Texas death row inmate seeking DNA testing to show he shouldn’t be executed

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Bato refiles death penalty bill vs drug traffickers
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Bato refiles death penalty bill vs drug traffickers

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Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa on Wednesday refiled in the 20th Congress a measure that seeks to restore the death penalty for large-scale drug traffickers.See the Story
Vietnam Eliminates Death Penalty for Eight Offenses | Death Penalty Information Center
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Vietnam Eliminates Death Penalty for Eight Offenses | Death Penalty Information Center

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On June 25, 2025, Vietnam’s National Assembly approved a mea­sure intro­duced by the gov­ern­ment to reduce the num­ber of death-eli­gi­ble offens­es from 18 to 10. Effective July 1, 2025, the for­mer­ly cap­i­tal crimes of ille­gal drug trans­port, pro­duc­tion and sale of coun­ter­feit med­i­cine, embez­zle­ment, accept­ing bribes, espi­onage, jeop­ar­diz­ing peace and wag­ing war, and van­dal­iz­ing state prop­er­ty will be pun­ish­able by li…See the Story

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DPI’s Podcast 12:01 The Death Penalty in Context: Journalists Reflect on the Challenges and Importance of Media Reporting on the Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center

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In this month’s pod­cast episode of 12:01 The Death Penalty in Context, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Sam Levin, a cor­re­spon­dent with *The Guardian* who cov­ers crim­i­nal jus­tice and the legal sys­tem, and Jimmy Jenkins, a crim­i­nal jus­tice reporter for *The Arizona Republic*, about the chal­lenges they encounter when report­ing on the increas­ing secre­tive use of the death penal­ty. Mr. Jenkins has wit­nessed exe­cu…Phoenix, Arizona · PhoenixRead Article

Hundreds Rally to Urge Commutation of California’s Death Row | Death Penalty Information Center

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On June 26, 2025, more than 200 Californians and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of civ­il rights orga­ni­za­tions gath­ered at the state Capitol to urge California Governor Gavin Newsom to com­mute all death sen­tences. Speakers at the gath­er­ing called California’s death penal­ty statute uncon­sti­tu­tion­al and not­ed per­sis­tent evi­dence of racial bias, his­toric ties to lynch­ing, inef­fec­tive pro­tec­tion of inno­cent lives, and high costs. Califo…Gavin Newsom · SacramentoRead Article

Arizona Legislature Moves Towards Compensating Exonerated Individuals, Including Eleven People Wrongfully Death Sentenced | Death Penalty Information Center

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The Arizona leg­is­la­ture is con­sid­er­ing new leg­is­la­tion that will com­pen­sate exon­er­at­ed indi­vid­u­als. HB 2813 was intro­duced in February by Republican Representative Khyl Powell and eas­i­ly passed in the Arizona House of Representatives in a 59 – 1 vote two weeks lat­er. The bill is now await­ing con­sid­er­a­tion by the Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee, and accord­ing to report­ing by the Daily Independent it is being ​…Phoenix, Arizona · PhoenixRead Article

New Book of Interest: The “Slow Death” of U.S. Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center

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The death penal­ty in the Unites States is expe­ri­enc­ing what schol­ars call a ​“slow death.” In their forth­com­ing book, ​“The Slow Death of the Death Penalty: Toward a Postmortem,” edi­tors Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, and Mary Welek Atwell bring togeth­er death penal­ty experts to exam­ine this shift in the use of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. New death sen­tences and exe­cu­tions still occur in a lim­it­ed num­ber of states; but Peppers et …United States · United StatesRead Article

Iran Executed at Least 975 People Last Year, the Highest Number Since 2015, UN Report Says

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran carried out executions at “an alarming rate” last year with at least 975 people killed, the United Nations chief said in a report…Europe · IranSee the Story

Article of Interest: Maricopa County Investigation: Capital Cases are Costly, Lack Transparency in Charging Decisions, and Rarely End in Death Sentences | Death Penalty Information Center

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A joint inves­ti­ga­tion by *ProPublica* and *ABC15 Arizona* reviewed more than 300 cas­es over the past two decades where Maricopa County pros­e­cu­tors sought the death penal­ty and found that only 13% result­ed in death sen­tences. In most cas­es a jury nev­er got close to con­sid­er­ing whether to sen­tence some­one to death: in more than three-quar­ters of cas­es, defen­dants pled guilty in exchange for less­er pun­ish­ment, or pros­e­cu­to…Maricopa County · Maricopa CountyRead Article

Governor Says Indiana Will Not Purchase More Lethal Injection Drugs, Invites Debate over Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center

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According to Governor Mike Braun, Indiana has deplet­ed the sup­ply of pen­to­bar­bi­tal it uses in its lethal injec­tion exe­cu­tions. Given that the last of the dos­es pur­chased in December 2024 expired and went unused, Gov. Braun does not intend to renew the state’s sup­ply. According to ear­li­er report­ing by the *Indiana Capital Chronicle*, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDC) spent $900,000 on pen­to­bar­bi­tal in late 2024 in prep…Mike Braun · IndianapolisRead Article

Counsel for Ralph Menzies Appeal Competency Ruling as State Moves to Set Execution Date | Death Penalty Information Center

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On June 6, 2025, District Judge Matthew Bates issued a rul­ing find­ing Utah death-sen­tenced pris­on­er Ralph Menzies men­tal­ly com­pe­tent to be exe­cut­ed despite con­cerns pre­sent­ed by Mr. Menzies’ attor­neys about his vas­cu­lar demen­tia. In his rul­ing, Judge Bates agreed that Mr. Menzies suf­fers from vas­cu­lar demen­tia but said Mr. Menzies had failed to show ​“by a pre­pon­der­ance of the evi­dence that his men­tal con­di­tion pre­…Utah · UtahRead Article

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