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: Capital Defense Weekly

Geography of Death

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

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One might suspect it is an election year. The Atlanta Journal Constitution Sunday examined the recent uptick in Dekalb & Fulton County (for “geographically challenged” like me those appear to be the Atlanta area) in capital prosecutions. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard is seeking death currently in nine murder cases. “In adjacent DeKalb County, District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming?s office is scheduled to make its opening statement in a death penalty trial Monday. And she is seeking death sentences in two more pending cases.” “Fulton County juries went eight years without approving a death sentence until this summer. In DeKalb County, the last death sentence was 19 years ago.” As Bernard Harcourt notes on the issue of geography in his thought provoking (and just released to SSRN) article Abolition in the USA by 2050: On Political Capital and Ordinary Acts of Resistance (which is his contribution to the soon to be released book “The Road to Abolition:The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States” ed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).