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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…
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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…
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Oct 25, 2018
“[T]he issue of race and the death penalty is not unique to the death penalty, it’s part of the broader problem with the criminal justice system,” says Bharat Malkani (pictured), author of the 2018 book
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Sep 07, 2018
Filming for the movie adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s best-selling book, Just Mercy, began August …
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Sep 06, 2018
“It is widely recognized that capital punishment in the United States of America continues to be imbued with the legacy of slavery” and, to end it, American death-penalty abolitionists “should draw on the radicalism of [anti-slavery] abolitionists…
