News & Commentary about Racial Disparities and the Death Penalty
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Dec 13, 2012
Day 2 of Velez Hearing: State’s Witness Dismantles State’s Timeline Theory
Dec 12, 2012
Day 1 of Velez Innocence Hearing: A Family Comes to Court for Justice
Dec 10, 2012
Could Manuel Velez be the 13th Prisoner Exonerated from Texas’s Death Row?
Oct 16, 2012
VICTORY! One Less Person Faces Execution in Alabama
Sep 14, 2012
Justice for Reggie Clemons: Not Another Troy Davis
Jul 3, 2012
North Carolina's Historic Racial Justice Act Gutted
Jun 29, 2012
Forty Years after Furman: Still "Fastened to the Obsolete"
Jun 14, 2012
Historic Racial Justice Act Faces Repeal
Apr 22, 2012
25 Years After McCleskey, Looking Forward to Legislative Fixes of Supreme Court Error