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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…
Studies
May 13, 2019
Proponents of capital punishment have long argued for the death penalty on the grounds that it brings closure to family members of homicide victims. But science suggests that achieving closure through execution may be a myth, says family and child…
Studies
May 10, 2019
A new study of Louisiana’s death penalty reports that the state’s capital punishment system costs taxpayers at least $15.6 million a year more than a system with life without parole as the maximum sentence. The study by retired Ne…
