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accessed April 30 , 2014. October 30 , 1892 : Allen Parker. Tuskegee University Archives; Tolnay, “NAACP Lynching Records.” Augu ...

CHAPTER TWO: STAND 1 Suicide, prisoner-on-prisoner violence ... The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that throughout the 198 ...

CHAPTER THREE: TRIALS AND TRIBULATION 1 “We’re going to keep all you niggers”... McMillian v. Johnson, Case No. 93 - A- 699 - N, ...

CHAPTER FOUR: THE OLD RUGGED CROSS 1 In 91 percent of these cases ...“The Death Penalty in Alabama: Judge Override,” Equal Justi ...

CHAPTER FIVE: OF THE COMING OF JOHN 1 Monroe County is a “dry county”... Monroe County is now technically considered “moist.” Th ...

CHAPTER SIX: SURELY DOOMED 1 Alabama had more juveniles sentenced to death ... Victor L. Streib, Death Penalty for Juveniles (Bl ...

CHAPTER SEVEN: JUSTICE DENIED 1 We found court records revealing ... Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 ( 1972 ); Mooney v. H ...

Sentencing: Research Indicates Pattern of Racial Disparities, 1990 , GAO/GGD- 90 - 57 (“In 82 percent of the studies, race of vi ...

CHAPTER EIGHT: ALL GOD’S CHILDREN 1 The extraordinarily high rates ... The Chester Upland school district has in the past two de ...

Congress found that juveniles in adult facilities are five times more likely to be sexually assaulted. 42 U.S.C. § 15601 ( 4 ). ...

25 Influential criminologists predicted ...“Super-predator” language was commonly used in conjunction with dire predictions that ...

Chapter NINE: I’M HERE 1 “Me, I can simply look”... McMillian v. Alabama, CC- 87 - 682. 60 , Testimony of Ralph Myers During Rul ...

CHAPTER TEN: MITIGATION 1 In the 1960 s and 1970 s ... In these decades, legislative and judicial reforms tightened the procedur ...

constitutional right to choose one’s associates; to accept private employment without governmental interference, and to earn one ...

CHAPTER ELEVEN: I’LL FLY AWAY 1 In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan ... New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 25 ...

CHAPTER TWELVE: MOTHER, MOTHER 1 Cook, who worked at the elementary school ... State v. Colbey, 2007 WL 7268919 (Ala. Cir. Ct. 2 ...

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL 1 Joe was made to say in court ... DEFENSE COUNSEL: All right. If you can’t identify me, the ...

consequences than fifteen-year-olds); Jari-Erik Nurmi, “How Do Adolescents See Their Future? A Review of the Development of Futu ...

Chapter FIFTEEN: BROKEN 1 James “Bo” Cochran had been released ... Cochran v. Herring, 43 F. 3 d 1404 ( 11 th Cir. 1995 ). 2 But ...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE STONECATCHERS’ SONG OF SORROW 1 On May 17 , 2010 , I was sitting ... Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 ( 2010 ...