Publications & Testimony

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Jan 03, 2005

NEW RESOURCE: Sister Helen Prejean’s New Book: The Death of Innocents

In her new book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, Sister Helen Prejean uses her per­son­al expe­ri­ences as a coun­selor to those on death row to explore the issue of inno­cence and the like­li­hood of exe­cut­ing a wrong­ly con­vict­ed per­son. The book also traces the his­tor­i­cal and legal under­pin­nings of the death penal­ty in the U.S. Prejean, who authored the #1 New York Times best­seller ​“Dead Man Walking,” begins her new book by focus­ing on the…

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Jan 03, 2005

NEW VOICES: Federal Judge Discusses His Concerns About the Death Penalty

In an inter­view with The New York Times, Judge Jed S. Rakoff (pic­tured) dis­cussed his rea­sons for find­ing the fed­er­al death penal­ty to be uncon­sti­tu­tion­al. Judge Rakoff ruled in April 2002 that the death penal­ty failed to secure due process because of the demon­strat­ed risk of exe­cut­ing an inno­cent per­son. He not­ed that his con­clu­sions on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment were based in part on his exten­sive review of cas­es includ­ed on the Death Penalty Information Center’s inno­cence list. He…

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