The Death Penalty in Alabama: Judge Override  by Equal Justice Initiative

The Death Penalty in Alabama: Judge Override

Equal Justice Initiative Reports #10

Equal Justice Initiative

30 pages first pub 2011 (editions) not a book user-added

nonfiction education history race reference

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Alabama is the only state where judges have routinely overridden jury verdicts of life to impose capital punishment. Since 1976, Alabama judges have overridden jury verdicts 112 times. Judges have authority to override life or death verdicts, but ...

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