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Eric Holder and the Death Penalty Data Dump

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Joe Palazzolo at BLT notes the conflicting stories regarding whether former Deputy AG Eric Holder has been tapped for the top spot. Newsweek says yes and the WaPo says "almost certainly." On the other hand, "An official in the Obama camp told the [New York] Times that the Newsweek report was 'wrong.'" Palazzolo notes that the controversial pardon of Marc Rich would likely come up in confirmation hearings. There is another issue that requires airing if Holder is indeed the nominee. That is DoJ's controversial data dump late in the Clinton Administration of uncontrolled numbers on the ethnic breakdown of federal capital cases. The report, titled U. S. Dept. of Justice, The Federal Death Penalty System: A Statistical Survey (1988-2000), is still available on the DoJ website...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).