Now that the U.S. is in the Public Executions stage of Fascism, here's something on the death penalty from a while back.
www.benignbigotry.org/blog/2022/8/...
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A Protocol for Death — Kristin J. Anderson
The research on death qualification is conclusive: the procedure is stacked against the defendant and that defendant is disproportionately a person of color and poor.