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There were a number of family members of murder victims who appeared before the Commission to share their personal experiences with homicide and the criminal justice system. They expressed their opposition, as victims, to the death penalty. As I l…
Studies
Jul 18, 2019
Citing race disparities, ineffective representation by court-appointed lawyers, and arbitrary case outcomes, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to strike down the …
Books
Jul 15, 2019
Rick Unklesbay served as a prosecutor in the Pima County Attorney’s Office in …
Books
Jul 11, 2019
The American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section will soon release its annual report on issues, trends, and significant changes in America’s criminal justice system. The new publication, The State of Criminal Justice 20…
Books
Jul 08, 2019
The death penalty and lynching were instruments of “white supremacist political and social power” in North Carolina, diverging in form but not in function. So writes University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill American Studies Professor Seth Kotch In…
Books
Jun 05, 2019
Four years after the racially motivated murders of nine African-American parishioners at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015, a new book by Charle…
