[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [OEF-Chat] Death Penalties

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Some interesting background and research on a concern we might share... - Karen MedinaREPORTERS’ NOTES The CondemnedThis week, The Intercept published The Condemned, 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 racism that underpins it, the prosecutors who wield great power to kill, and the unlikely coalitions that have formed to fight for abolition.After years of writing about individual death penalty cases, we wanted to find a way to measure not only who has been executed and who is condemned, but how many people had been removed from death row — a sizable but largely invisible population that exposes the myriad ways in which capital punishment is a failed policy and perversion of justice. As the Trump administration prepares to carry out the first federal executions in 16 years, The Condemned is a damning portrait of a “cruel and unusual” system that is carried out in our names.Liliana SeguraSenior ReporterJordan SmithSenior ReporterA Push to Repeal the Death Penalty Gains Ground Across the Western United StatesLiliana Segura, Jordan SmithAbolition of the death penalty has increasingly become a bipartisan issue, with fiscal conservatives joining reformers focused on wrongful convictions.READ MORE →By Any Measure, Capital Punishment Is a Failed PolicyLiliana Segura, Jordan SmithMost 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?READ MORE →
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