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Death Row U.S.A. Reporter
Criminal Justice and Criminology - HeinOnline Criminal Justice in America: U.S. Attorney General Opinions, Reports, and Publications Available from 1975. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--United States--States--Statistics.
- Prisoners.
- Death row--United States--States--Statistics.
- Death row.
- Capital punishment--United States--Digests.
- Capital punishment.
- Capital punishment--United States--States--Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ( volumes).
- Quarterly
- Other Title:
- Death row USA reporter
- Death row U.S.A. reporter current service
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : NAACP Legal Defense Fund., 1975-
- Summary:
- "For over 30 years the LDF's primary criminal justice objective has been to eliminate capital punishment. Historically there has been discriminatory application of capital punishment against the poor and blacks. In the 1987 McCleskey decision where LDF argued that the death penalty is imposed more frequently against persons (especially black persons) who kill whites, the U.S. Supreme Court did not question the validity of the evidence and even agreed that a correlation does exist between race and the death penalty. However, the Court held that defendants must prove, on a case-by-case basis, intentional racial bias and discrimination by prosecutors, jurors, or judges"--Preface, pages vii-viii,1975/1988 volume.
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