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Broken Justice: The Death Penalty in Alabama

The "unfairness and unreliability that plague the death penalty system in Alabama" is documented (p. 2). This report is divided into eleven sections: overview; Alabama does not provide adequate indigent defense; innocent people have been wrongfully convicted and possibly executed; the high cost of the death penalty; prosecutorial misconduct; judicial overrides and death sentencing; mentally retarded defendants and the death penalty; mental illness and the death penalty; juveniles and the death penalty; race and the death penalty; and conclusions and recommendations. Accession Number: 021011

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