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ACLU Capital Punishment Project state strategies coordinator Christopher Hill writes, "Racial Bias Highlights Rampant Problems in Death Penalty System," at Daily Kos. Here's the introduction:This year marks the 40th anniversary of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which produced the groundbreaking Kerner Commission Report. Wanting to understand why uprisings happened in places like Newark and Detroit, President Lyndon Johnson gave the commission a set of questions: "What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?" The most quoted line from the report is that the United States is "moving toward two societies, one black, one white?separate and unequal...continue to full post

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