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Though the resulting study by University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang impressively documented discrimination, no court would buy the argument that general statistics proved unconstitutional bias in a particular case. The L.D.F. concluded, says Meltsner, that it could never win "unless the fact that a high proportion of blacks were...
Friendly attorneys in states with the death penalty were enlisted to alert the L.D.F. to imminent execution dates. A so-called Last Aid Kit was drawn up, complete with an array of papers, forms and arguments, making it possible for almost any attorney to obtain a stay with a minimum...
By mid-1971, there had not been an execution in the U.S. for four years. But the Supreme Court had just rejected two key L.D.F. arguments. One attacked the lack of legal standards guiding a jury's decision to require death; the other objected to the general jury practice...
"The politics of abolition," he says, "boiled down to this: For each year the United States went without executions, the more hollow would ring claims that the American people could not do without them; the longer death-row inmates waited, the greater their numbers, the more difficult it would be...
Aquino, who was charged with illegal possession of firearms, murder, and plotting subversion with Maoist rebels, was not exaggerating; if convicted, he could have been sentenced to execution or life imprisonment. Despite having spent eleven months in prison since his arrest, Aquino looked trim and confident when he took his...