Death Row and Color in Alabama
Nancy Goldstein has a new article up on the Equal Justice Initiative and Alabama's death row. She asks, "If you are a poor person of color accused of a capital crime in Alabama, what stands between you and the death penalty?"
This very fine non-profit is trying to turn back the state's bad habit of routinely denying poor people decent legal representation, and then sentencing them to death without access to decent post-conviction appeal. The article also brings up the question of states' rights vs. federal oversight, particularly in Alabama, where almost all socially progressive decisions have been federally mandated, and where voters show a more than subtle inclination towards returning to the days of Jim Crow
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