Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong https://perma.cc/Y2AW-KYGG
Wrongful execution https://perma.cc/56J3-C94S
List of wrongful convictions in the United States https://perma.cc/FN8R-SU6C
Our death penalty system treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent. As a result, a stunning number of innocent people have been sentenced to death https://perma.cc/MV7F-3NZU
Innocence https://perma.cc/3ZGA-KT27
According to research, 35% of people executed in the last 40 years have been Black, despite the fact Black Americans only make up 13% of the general population. Why is this happening? https://perma.cc/78FF-D57V —> again the goal is not to put someone in prison, just to say "i got it" by making stats better! Even if this still happens, the goal should not be this at all!
Same answer for what ACLU write https://perma.cc/H2CY-ZE27
Information about different wrongful conviction rates had different effects on death penalty support. An accurate estimate of the wrongful conviction rate plays an important role in altering death penalty opinion (from "The effect of wrongful conviction rate on death penalty support: a research note")
Same answer for things uploaded by Amnesty: Killing with Prejudice: Race and the Death Penalty in the USA https://perma.cc/6XKU-UU4B
Death by discrimination - the
continuing role of race in capital cases https://perma.cc/R6E3-NF2Q
Same for "Findings indicate that homicides with white female victims were more likely to result in death sentences than other victim race-gender dyads" (Jefferson E. Holcomb et al 2004) and many similar papers reporting discrimination.
Death sentence is not synonym of discrimination, if who is doing the sentence, do it with facts and not with personal preferences ...
Remember that having a death sentence doesn't mean you need to use that! and the death execution still happens after 20 years! not 6 years like in 1980 ... https://perma.cc/7LBP-ASWQ so there is still time to remove that.
Wrongful execution https://perma.cc/56J3-C94S
List of wrongful convictions in the United States https://perma.cc/FN8R-SU6C
Our death penalty system treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent. As a result, a stunning number of innocent people have been sentenced to death https://perma.cc/MV7F-3NZU
Innocence https://perma.cc/3ZGA-KT27
According to research, 35% of people executed in the last 40 years have been Black, despite the fact Black Americans only make up 13% of the general population. Why is this happening? https://perma.cc/78FF-D57V —> again the goal is not to put someone in prison, just to say "i got it" by making stats better! Even if this still happens, the goal should not be this at all!
Same answer for what ACLU write https://perma.cc/H2CY-ZE27
Information about different wrongful conviction rates had different effects on death penalty support. An accurate estimate of the wrongful conviction rate plays an important role in altering death penalty opinion (from "The effect of wrongful conviction rate on death penalty support: a research note")
Same answer for things uploaded by Amnesty: Killing with Prejudice: Race and the Death Penalty in the USA https://perma.cc/6XKU-UU4B
Death by discrimination - the
continuing role of race in capital cases https://perma.cc/R6E3-NF2Q
Same for "Findings indicate that homicides with white female victims were more likely to result in death sentences than other victim race-gender dyads" (Jefferson E. Holcomb et al 2004) and many similar papers reporting discrimination.
Death sentence is not synonym of discrimination, if who is doing the sentence, do it with facts and not with personal preferences ...
Remember that having a death sentence doesn't mean you need to use that! and the death execution still happens after 20 years! not 6 years like in 1980 ... https://perma.cc/7LBP-ASWQ so there is still time to remove that.