Death Penalty : "Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment: Blind Justice Requires a Blindfold" By Scott Phillips

Recent Reports

"California's Death Penalty is Dead: Anatomy of a Failure", ACLU, July 2011
"Executing the Will of the Voters?: A Roadmap to Mend or End the California Legislature's Multi-Billion Dollar Death Penalty Debacle" by Judge Arthur L. Alarcon & Paula M. Mitchell, published in Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Volume 44:S41 Special Issue (2011)
"Preventable Error: A Report on Prosecutorial Misconduct in California 1997–2009", by Kathleen M. Ridolfi and Maurice Possley Northern California Innocence Project, Santa Clara University School of Law, October 2010

Reports

"Death Penalty Sentencing In Decline Across U.S." by the ACLU of Northern California, March 30, 2010
"Death Sentences and Executions 2009" by Amnesty International, March 2010
"DO EXECUTIONS LOWER HOMICIDE RATES?: THE VIEWS OF LEADING CRIMINOLOGISTS" By Michael L. Radelet and Traci L. LaCock, July 2009
"Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment: Blind Justice Requires a Blindfold" By Scott Phillips - October 2008
"CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON THE FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN CALIFORNIA" - June 30, 2008
"Death by Geography" - March 27, 2008
"The Hidden Death Tax" - March 27, 2008
"A Crisis of Confidence: Americans' Doubts About the Death Penalty" - June 9, 2007
"Innocent and Executed" - 2006
"Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited" - February 01, 2006
"Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes" - 2006
“The Impact of Legally Inappropriate Factors on Death Sentencing for California Homicides, 1990-99” - 2005
"Exonerations in the United States, 1989 through 2003" - 2005
"The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States Through the Experiences of Women" - 2004
"Innocence Lost" - 2004
"A Comparison Between Governor Romney's Massachusetts Death Penalty Report and California’s Capital Punishment System" - 2004
"The Report of the Foxes: Analysis of Prosecutors' Perspective on California's Death Penalty" - 2003
"Comparison of the Illinois Commission Report on Capital Punishment with the Capital Punishment System in California" - 2003.