
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div><br></div></div><div class="ydp342b5683yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Some interesting background and research on a concern we might share... - Karen Medina</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" id="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804templateHeader" style="background-image: none; background-size: cover; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804headerContainer"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px;"><table align="left" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnImageContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 9px;"><a href="https://theintercept.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43fc0c0fce9292d8bed09ca27&id=29d53bd126&e=aa6c8b7c04" title="" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/43fc0c0fce9292d8bed09ca27/images/0230d340-54f3-4be4-9091-b7e7107049a7.png" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnRetinaImage" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 300px; padding-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; width: 150px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" onmouseover="imageMousePointerUpdate(true)" onmouseout="imageMousePointerUpdate(false)" id="1575732270548"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" id="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804templateBody" style="background-image: none; background-size: cover; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804bodyContainer"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804mcnTextContent" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><h1 class="ydpc960c3e2yiv6069702804null" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32.5px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 83, 255);">REPORTERS’ NOTES </span></span></span><br>The Condemned</h1><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">This week, The Intercept published <a href="https://theintercept.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43fc0c0fce9292d8bed09ca27&id=79375817fe&e=aa6c8b7c04" style="color: rgb(102, 83, 255);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Condemned</a>, a three-year investigation that includes a dataset tallying 7,335 individual death sentences and their outcomes. Accompanying the data are stories that illustrate different aspects of this failed system: the <a href="https://theintercept.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43fc0c0f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ital Punishment Is a Failed Policy</a></span></strong><br><span style="font-size: 13px;">Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith</span><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">Most people who have been sentenced to death in the U.S. are no longer on death row, and they haven’t been executed. Where did they go?</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://theintercept.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43fc0c0fce9292d8bed09ca27&id=d25ac71c4e&e=aa6c8b7c04" style="color: rgb(102, 83, 255); font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.6px;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">READ MORE →</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></body></html>