The Death Penalty and Race

Theodore Shaw and Christina Swarns writing in New York Amsterdam News (2004) suggest that the state legislature should reject pressure for a quick reinstatement of New York State's death penalty laws. They urge legislative hearings to examine the effectiveness of capital punishment. They suggest that the use of the death penalty in New York State has been corrupted by systemic racial discrimination. Shaw and Swarms believe that reinstatement of the death penalty is ethically and morally unsupportable in light of the very real possibility that it will result in the execution of one or more innocent people. They add that Nationwide,

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