Institutionalized Racism in American Capital Punishment
by
R.J. Maratea
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases
In 1978 Warren McCleskey, a black man, killed a white police officer in Georgia. He was convicted by a jury of 11 whites and 1 African American, and was sentenced to death. Although McCleskey’s...