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    Racial Discrimination

    Issues of racial bias plague the criminal justice system, and the death penalty is no exception. Studies have shown discrimination occurring at every stage of a case, including charging, jury selection, and sentencing. Learn how our volunteers have fought to correct these injustices.

    "Even under the most sophisticated death-penalty statutes, race continues to play a major role in determining who shall live and who shall die.”

    Former US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, dissenting from the Court's decision in Callins v. Collins

    Race & the Death Penalty