Webinar: “The Death Penalty Doesn’t Make Us Safer.”

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Starts: October 15, 2025 12:00 pm
Ends: June 26, 2025 1:00 pm

Don’t forget to register for our webinar next Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at noon Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern, “The Death Penalty Doesn’t Make Us Safer.”

 In recognition of World Day Against the Death Penalty’s 2025 theme, “The Death Penalty Protects No One,” the webinar will focus on the myth that the death penalty is a deterrent and makes our communities safer. Register now to join our discussion on how the deterrence argument is demonstrably false. Death Penalty Board President Mike Farrell will moderate the conversation with two criminal justice experts, each of whom brings a depth of knowledge and experience to present fact-based evidence that disproves the long-held argument of capital punishment supporters that the death penalty makes our communities safer.

DPF President Mike Ferrell
DPF Board President Mike Farrell

President of the Board of Death Penalty Focus, Mike Farrell is also a spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization; Co-Chair Emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch; and, occasionally, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Death Penalty Policy Project Director Robert Dunham

Robert Dunham is the Director of the Death Penalty Policy Project, Special Counsel at Phillips Black, and an adjunct professor at Temple Law School. He is the former Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, former Executive Director of the PA Capital Case Resource Center, and a federal defender at the PA capital habeas unit.

Founding executive director of Berkeley's Criminal Law & Justice Center Chesa Boudin

Chesa Boudin is the founding Executive Director of Berkeley’s Criminal Law & Justice Center, a policy and advocacy hub. He served as San Francisco’s elected district attorney from 2020 until 2022. During that time, Boudin implemented reforms to ensure that the criminal justice system delivered safety and justice for all. He significantly expanded the office’s victim services division, eliminated prosecutors’ use of money bail, prosecuted police for excessive force, sued the manufacturers of ghost guns, expanded diversion to address the root causes of crime, and reduced incarceration rates substantially. During his time in office, both violent and non-violent crime fell by double digits. Before his election, he worked for years as a deputy public defender.

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