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

