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United States of America: Death by Discrimination -- The Continuing Role of Race in Capital Cases
Publication year:
2003
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The role of race, especially that of the victim, in who receives the death penalty is examined. The following sections comprise this report: introduction; the McCleskey obstacle; the evidence of bias continues to mount; poverty, race, and legal representation; race, error, and arbitrariness; federal failure; race and juvenile injustice; "A skunk in the jury box"; juror race as a potential factor in capital cases; bias in jury selection; alleged racial coercion in the jury room; a glimmer of hope in a race case; executive clemency -- not a fail-safe; two steps for human rights -- moratorium, abolition; selected international standards; and campaigning for abolition in the USA. This report concludes that: "The death penalty in the United States remains an act of racial injustice . . . Abolition is the only solution to this cruel, inhuman, degrading and irrevocable punishment" (p. 2).