This month, the Death Penalty Information Center shares a new podcast with its PowerPoint presentation, entitled "Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder?."

View the PowerPoint presentation here. 

Listen to the podcast here. 

In it, DPIC Fellow Seth Rose and Executive Director Robert Dunham detail research studies that reveal Death Penalty does not deter murders

The Florida Execution Schedule is up and running again.  Governor Rick Scott has signed the Death Warrant for an August execution, the first execution for Florida in 18 months.

Mark James Asay is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida on August 24, 2017, at six o’clock in the afternoon.  

Death Warrant

The Death Penalty Information Center website is a great resource for anyone interested in learning more about capital punishment in the United States.  And the site just keeps getting better.  

They’ve got site-specific pages for each state, for one thing.

DPIC State-Specific Page: Florida

There’s a great deal of Florida Death Penalty information collected