Fool’s gold

The Death Penalty Information Center recently published their report, Fool’s Gold: How the Federal Death Penalty Has Perpetuated Racially Discriminatory Practices Throughout History.

The report documents use of the federal death penalty from its earliest beginnings through modern day. The report also demonstrates how federal defendants share many of the same characteristics as state court defendants namely, that they are often poor, traumatised, mentally impaired and disproportionately people of colour, and how the federal death penalty was a tool used by the government to intimidate and subjugate people of colour.

You can read the full report here

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