The Racial Geography of the Federal Death Penalty
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Jan. 28, 2011
ANNOTATION: Anyone interested in issues related the death penalty should read this article. Sections following an abstract are: blacks are disproportionately impacted by federal death penalty prosecution, especially in counties demographically different from surrounding federal district; county-level juries, as opposed to juries drawn from the entire federal district, maintain the link between community values and the imposition of capital punishment; districts with the highest death sentencing rates tend to be comprised of a largely black county surrounded by largely white counties; juror race does matter; communities and neighbors; finding remedies after McKleskey, Armstrong, and Bass; conclusion.
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