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Race Matters

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Last night at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, a large group of students, professors, and other folks gathered to watch the documentary "Race to Execution." Rachel Lyon's film is a powerful documentary that "explores the deep and disturbing link between race and the death penalty in America." It focuses on two specific cases, Madison Hobley of Chicago and Robert Tarver of Russell County, Alabama and "interweaves their compelling personal stories together with groundbreaking scholarship." Tarver received the death penalty due to an Alabama statute which allowed the presiding judge to overrule the jury's decision for life in prison without parole.There are many out there that would like to believe that race has nothing to do with the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on February 13, 2008 (boomark / email).