1 in 10 on death row may suffer mental illness
There are significant gaps in the legal protection accorded severely mentally ill defendants charged with or convicted of a capital crime. Most notably, this country still permits the execution of the...
View ArticleRace and capital prosecutions in Caddo Parish
This graph, based on an extension of the research by Tim Lyman (see below), shows death sentences by race of victim and race of defendant from 1976 to 2010 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. The graphs shows...
View ArticleThose who kill whites 2.6 times more likely to be sentenced to death
Pierce and Radelet (2011) examined all cases in the parish of East Baton Rouge that at any time were charged as first-degree murders over a 19-year period from 1990 to 2008. They found that for...
View ArticleReport on Louisiana’s Death Penalty
Diminishing All of Us: The Death Penalty in LA A comprehensive study of the death penalty in Louisiana was released in 2012. Diminishing All of Us: The Death Penalty in Louisiana, was commissioned by...
View ArticleEJI Report: Exclusion of people of color from juries
A report published in November 2010 by the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit that works in Alabama, examined patterns of unfairness in jury selection in eight southern states, including Louisiana....
View ArticleBlackstrikes Study
After two Jefferson Parish capital convictions were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Louisiana Supreme Court because prosecutors had used race-based reasons to exclude black jurors during...
View ArticleNew Study Shows Harm of Executions for Murder Victims’ Families
A landmark study has been released which challenges the steadfast notion that the death penalty brings satisfaction and closure to murder victims’ families. It is the first systemic inquiry dealing...
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