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Dismantling Structural Racism to End Capital Punishment 03 April 2025 Diann Rust-Tierney
The Badges and Incidents of Capital Punishment 27 February 2025 Luca Azzariti Crousillat
The Gross Injustices of Capital Punishment: A Torturous Practice and Justice Thurgood Marshall's Astute Appraisal of the Death Penalty's Cruelty, Discriminatory Use, and Unconstitutionality 30 August 2024 John D. Bessler
Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: The Urgent Need for Sixth Amendment Protections for Black Capital Defendants 01 August 2024 Claire Austin
Long Overdue: The Need for an Examination of the Specter of Racial Bias in the Federal Death Penalty System 30 July 2024 John Nidiry and Ruth Friedman
Capital Punishment Unmasked: Shades of Justice in America's Grim Theater 29 July 2024 Akin Adepoju
The Death Penalty in Black and White: Execution Coverage in Two Southern Newspapers, 1877-1936 10 August 2023 Daniel LaChance
Capital Punishment for Latine Populations 19 February 2023 Morgan Zamora
Ensuring Black Lives Matter When the Penalty Is Death 11 November 2022 Sidney Balman
Black Man's Burden: Race and the Death Penalty in America 04 September 2022 Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Race and Gender Disparities in Capitally-charged Louisiana Homicide Cases, 1976-2014 30 June 2022 Tim Lyman, Frank R. Baumgartner and Glenn L. Pierce
The Islamic Position on Capital Punishment: A Restorative Justice Model Which Aligns with International Law, and Inspires Reasoning for Prison Industrial Complex Abolition in the U.S. 28 June 2021 Najia Humayun
Unjustified Punishment: the Eighth Amendment and Death Sentences in States That Fail to Execute 23 February 2021 Elizabeth Brilliant
Denialism and the Death Penalty 25 October 2020 Jenny-Brooke Condon
The Influence of Latino Ethnicity on the Imposition of the Death Penalty 25 October 2020 Sheri Lynn Johnson
The Emergence of Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment in Jim Crow New Orleans 06 October 2019 Jeffrey S. Adler
The Defunding of the Post Conviction Defense Organizations as a Denial of the Right to Counsel 04 September 2019 Roscoe C. Howard, Jr.
The Struggle Against the Death Penalty Moves Forward in Washington State: Reflections on State V. Gregory 31 August 2019 Neil M. Fox
Valuing Procedure over Substance: Racial Bias in the Capital Jury Room 11 June 2019 Grace Manning
Institutionalizing Bias: The Death Penalty, Federal Drug Prosecutions, and Mechanisms of Disparate Punishment 02 January 2019 Mona Lynch
Devaluing Death: an Empirical Study of Implicit Racial Bias on Jury-eligible Citizens in Six Death Penalty States 01 January 2019 Justin D. Levinson, Robert J. Smith, and Danielle M. Young
Empathy Leads to Death: Why Empathy Is an Adversary of Capital Defendants 05 October 2018 Erik Aucoin
What Can Brown Do for You?: Addressing Mccleskey V. Kemp as a Flawed Standard for Measuring the Constitutionally Significant Risk of Race Bias 26 July 2018 Mario L. Barnes and Erwin Chemerinsky
The Youngest of the Young: Fourteen-year-olds Sentenced to Die 21 August 2017 Sheri Lynn Johnson, John H. Blume and Hannah L. Freedman
A Look at the Inappropriateness of Life Without Parole as an Alternative to the Death Penalty 14 March 2013 Ashley Nellis
Death in Prison: the Right Death Penalty Compromise 24 June 2012 Russell D. Covey
Constitutional Reform and the Abolition of the Mandatory Death Penalty in Kenya: An International Comparison 18 May 2012 Andrew Novak
Race and Death Sentences in Texas 04 April 2012 Deon Brock, Nigel Cohen, Jonathan Sorensen
Race and the Death Penalty: McCleskey v Kemp 03 April 2012 Chaka M. Patterson
Statistics and Death: The Conspicuous Role of Race Bias in the Administration of the Death Penalty 02 April 2012 Ruth E. Friedman
Why the Injection of Race in Saldano v. State Constitutes Fundamental Error 02 April 2012 Diana L. Hoermann
Death Penalty Statistics - II 02 April 2012
Death Penalty Statistics 02 April 2012
Death Penalty: Blind but Not Colorblind 02 April 2012

 

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