On October 7, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in a media interview that Nidal Hasan’s execution would be publicly live-streamed. The announcement quickly drew bipartisan criticism, with ...

DPI’s current monthly podcast series is called “12:01 The Death Penalty in Context” We speak with death penalty experts about timely death penalty developments in the news. To listen to any of the ...

On October 7, a Tennessee judge issued a broadly worded order requiring the state to preserve all evidence from the failed September 30 execution attempt of Christa Pike. Her attorneys reported on ...

The U.S. Army has set an execution date of December 3 for Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people in a mass shooting on the Fort Hood military base in 2009. The announcement comes after ...

Justin Wolfe with his mother, Terri Steinberg, and uncle, Joe Casamento. Photo courtesy of Terri Steinberg. Justin Wolfe (pictured, center, with his mother and uncle) was released from prison on ...

The attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee has drawn national and international attention after Tennessee Department of Correction officials administered two doses of lethal-injection drugs ...

Christa Pike remained alive more than an hour after the state of Tennessee began its attempt to execute her on September 30, 2026. It was the latest in a series of troubled executions by the Tennessee ...

Brenda Gilliam-Miller, Dawn Jackson, Kristy Standford and Karen Dana hold vigil to remember loved ones whose homicide cases have gone cold. (Photo by Kiera Riley for Arizona Mirror) During a local ...

On September 28, 2026, Governor Bill Lee denied a clemency request from death-sentenced prisoner Christa Pike, who is scheduled to be executed on September 30. Gov. Lee announced, “[a]fter deliberate ...

Nearly two years after District Judge Arturo Nelson declared Texas death-sentenced prisoner Melissa Lucio “actually innocent,” the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) refused to accept the ...