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John Holdridge on Geographic Disparity of the Death Penalty

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The director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project writes, "Sentenced To Death Because Of Where You Live: The Death Penalty?s Geographic Bias," at the ACLU Blog of Rights.Americans have become increasingly troubled by the profound flaws in our capital punishment system, including its astonishing error rate and its racial and socioeconomic biases. They are less aware of its disturbing geographical biases. The United States does not practice capital punishment. Isolated parts of it do. The death penalty is primarily a southern institution, as Death Penalty Information Center statistics establish. The State of Texas alone has accounted for over 37 percent of all executions in the U.S. since 1977, which marked the beginning of the nation?s modern death penalty era...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).