Entries by Jeti Edwards

#### DPI​’s​“What to Know” series exam­ines cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment from mul­ti­ple angles, one top­ic at a time. Each install­ment pro­vides essen­tial facts and data on spe­cif­ic aspects of the death penal­ty. Why it mat­ters: State laws per­mit­ting judges to over­ride jury deci­sions and the impo­si­tion of death sen­tences based on non-unan­i­­­mous jury ver­dicts have con­tributed to Alabama and Florida’s high death sen­tenc­ing rates — with near­ly 20% of Alabama’s death-sentenced population…

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