NewsOne Featured Video The electric chair at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama. | Source: Bettmann / Getty Most of us know of the myriad of studies that show racial disparities exist in virtually all aspects of America’s criminal justice system. From arrests to sentencing to racial profiling to over-policing, it has been shown over and […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty All current death penalty cases in one northern California county were ordered reviewed after the revelation of a racist and antisemitic scandal that targeted inmates who were Black and Jewish. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Monday that her office had been directed by a federal […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: F. Carter Smith / Getty Reprieve, a non-profit organization advocating against the death penalty, shed light on a troubling aspect of the controversial form of capital punishment in a new report. According to the organization’s latest study, Black individuals have experienced botched lethal injection executions at an alarming rate compared to […]
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