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THE EXECUTION of Charles Brooks Jr. in Texas last week raises two separate, yet equally disturbing questions whose implications go well beyond the case in question. Brooks was convicted of shooting a Fort Worth car mechanic and sentenced to death, even though his co-defendant received a prison term of...
When Brooks was killed at the state prison in Huntsville. Texas, his legal appeal was still pending before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Unlike every other death-row prisoner in history, Brooks was denied a chance to go through the full appeals process called three tiered review." Brooks...
At the last minute, the Supreme Court sanctioned the judicial shortcut by voting 6-3 not to stay the execution Conservative Justice William H. Rhenquist had long sought a way to speed up the pace of state executions; he now found help from the newest justice, Sandra Day O'Connor...
THE SYSTEM MAY be arbitrary in individual cases but a few overall trends stand out clearly. Between 65 and 70 percent of prisoners on death row are in states of the Deep South. About 42 percent of the approximately 1150 inmates awaiting execution are Black, like Charles Brooks. Some historians...
An official at the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated last summer that executions will be stepped up in the next two years, and may approach the frequency of the Depression era, when there were three executions a week. Any attempt to stop the spate of killings must begin quickly. Public...