Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

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As Tennessee Restarts Executions, 40 Years of Data Expose Its Death Penalty as a 'Cruel Lottery'

"Yet the restarting of the death machinery in Nashville runs against a well-documented trend both in Tennessee and the rest of the country. Executions are declining year after year — and new death sentences have become vanishingly rare."

The Intercept

August 15, 2018