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ABA Division for Public Education

Spring 2004
The Future of Capital Punishment: Current Policies and New Debates

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Learning Links and Readings

Race

“Capital Punishment on the 25th Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia: A Report by the Southern Center for Human Rights” by Stephen B. Bright. Southern Center for Human Rights, June 26, 1997.

“Deadly Race Cards?: U.S. Supreme Court overturns Texas death sentence after expert testifies race can predict future threat” by Mark Hansen. ABA Journal, September 2000.

“Death Penalty Facts: Racial Prejudices.” Amnesty International Program to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Offers statistics about racial bias.

“The Death Penalty in 1999: Year End Report.” Death Penalty Information Center, December 1999.
Includes a section on race.

“Double Justice: Race and the Death Penalty.” American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Network.
Briefly describes studies about racial bias in sentencing.

“International Perspectives on the Death Penalty: A Costly Isolation for the U.S.” by Richard C. Dieter. Death Penalty Information Center, October 1999.
Includes a brief section on race.

“Killing with Prejudice: Race and the Death Penalty in the USA.” Rights for All: Amnesty International’s Campaign on the United States of America.
Covers different aspects of reported racial bias in death penalty proceedings.

“Race and the Law.” ABA Journal, February 1999.

“Reno Troubled by Death Penalty Statistics” by Marc Lacey and Raymond Bonner. The New York Times on the Web, September 13, 2000.
Statistics show capital punishment is not applied uniformly across ethnic groups.

 

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