Discrimination and the Death Penalty By Katie Matthews "Twenty years have past since this court declared that the death penalty must be imposed fairly, and with reasonable consistency, or not at all, and, despite the effort of the states and courts to devise legal formulas and procedural rules to meet this daunting challenge, the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake." --Justice Harry Blackmun, Feb. 22, 1994. Capital punishment is one of the most …showed first 75 words of 2177 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2177 total…dpic/dpic.r05.html 5. "The Case Against the Death Penalty." http://www.aclu.org/library/case_against_death.html#unfair Magazine Resources 1. Carroll, James, "Lets Gets Real About Executions in America: Three Easy Steps," The Atlantic Monthly, May 1994. 2. Chinni, Dante, "Life and Death Decisions," Newsweek, June 16, 1997. 3. Monsma, Stephen, "Capital Punishment - A Qualified Yes," The Banner, Dec. 8, 1997. 4. NA, "UN report calls for ban on executions in the U.S," The Globe and Mail, April 4,1998. References