David Dow has represented over 100 death row cases in Texas. In The Autobiography of an Execution he takes readers inside the issue of the death penalty—from the inner-workings of the criminal justice system to prisons and execution chambers—and reveals the challenges of working on these cases.
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Comments [6]
Len invite some of these people home, they sound great.
Is there sex bias in executions?
If a firefighter exam can be overturned after being empirically found racially biased (cf NH), can't the death penalty?
I suspect that racism is a major issue in bringing death penalty cases, but I would like to know overall how many whites have been accused of killing blacks as opposed to blacks killing whites.
Can we hear what the crimes were, just for kicks. I know I am supposed to forget that these are criminals.
I have heard that 2/3 of the death penalty are reversed on appeal. True?
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