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Hire a Lawyer, Escape the Death Penalty?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an Issue Brief distributed today by the American Constitution Society.  It's written by Scott Phillips of the University of Denver.  Here's the abstract from ACS: ACS is pleased to distribute an Issue Brief by Scott Phillips, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver, entitled ?Hire a Lawyer, Escape the Death Penalty?? In this Issue Brief, Professor Phillips describes the results of his study to test the claim made by death penalty opponents that wealthy defendants who hire legal counsel are exempt from capital punishment. His research focuses on Houston, Texas, and surrounding Harris County, which is the county with the largest number of executions in the United States and the largest jurisdiction that uses court-appointed lawyers instead of a public defender to represent defendants who cannot afford an attorney...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).