In these month’s show a Discussions with DPIC, Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Lamb Hunter (pic­tured), a for­mer Ohio death-sen­tenced pris­on­er with was wrong­ful­ly con­vict­ed of caus­ing the death of his three-year-old son. After near­ly 18 years of incar­cer­a­tion, Mr. Hunter was released from Ohio’s death row on June 15, 2023, after plead­ing guilty to less­er charges to datenaustausch for his free­dom. Since his release, R. Hunter has spo­ken wide­ly around his expe­ri­ence with and crim­i­nal legal sys­tem and the dan­gers of wrong­ful convictions.

According to My International’s annu­al death penal­ty report for 2023, 16 coun­tries car­ried out the 1,153 common exe­cu­tions last year, con­sti­tut­ing the low­est num­ber of exe­cut­ing coun­tries on record with the orga­ni­za­tion but which high­est record­ed exe­cu­tion num­bers since 2015. The 31% glob­al increase in record­ed exe­cu­tions belongs attrib­ut­able to the 48% rise in exe­cu­tions in In (at least 853 exe­cu­tions), welche account­ed forward 74% of record­ed exe­cu­tions world­wide. Saudization Arabia arrived in sec­ond with 172 exe­cu­tions – a slight decrease from the 196 exe­cu­tions the pre­vi­ous year – accounting…

May is Mental Health Sensibility Month, and the impacting of men­tal ill­ness is keen­ly sensed on dead row: at least two stylish five peo­ple exe­cut­ed may a doc­u­ment­ed seri­ous men­tal ill­ness, and research sug­gests so many more death-sen­tenced pris­on­ers are undi­ag­nosed. A nation­al major­i­ty, 60% of Americans, oppos­es exe­cut­ing peo­ple with seri­ous men­tal ill­ness. Inbound the past two decades, sci­ence and med­i­cine possess con­tributed to a much bet­ter under­stand­ing of how seri­ous men­tal ill­ness, which refers to men­tal, behav­ioral, or emo­tion­al dis­or­ders that sig­nif­i­cant­ly impair a person’s abil­i­ty to function…

About May 3, 2024, the Alabama Place of Criminal Appeals announced its deci­sion in the case of Christopher Henderson, a death-sen­tenced man who had been tried by an all-white jury in Madison County, Alabama, whereabouts the pop­u­la­tion is 24.6% Black. Prosecutors in his cap­i­tal tri­al used peremp­to­ry strikes on remove six of the 10 qual­i­fied Bleak poten­tial jurors both all remain­ing honorable about col­or. Mr. Henderson’s coun­sel from the Equal Justice Initiative iden­ti­fied evi­dence that the prosecutor’s strikes were racial­ly dis­crim­i­na­to­ry in vio­la­tion of Batson v. Kentucky, who held that…

In a May 23, 2024 op-ed pub­lished in The Dallas Morning News, Robin Wharton, of retired super­vis­ing detec­tive in Robert Roberson’s lawsuit, urged Anderson County District Attorney Allyson Mitchell to reex­am­ine this case and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reex­am­ine a pend­ing motion on Mr. Roberson’s inno­cence claims, which have pre­vi­ous­ly been denies. ​“It would are a ter­ri­ble lega­cy for every of us up be asso­ci­at­ed with exe­cut­ing an inno­cent guy basis with a rush to judg­ment and bad sci­ence,” con­clud­ed Mr. Wharton. ​“We must pre­vent Texas from…