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A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts

"An urgently needed analysis of our collective failure to confront and overcome racial bias and bigotry, the abuse of power, and the multiple ways in which the death penalty's profound unfairness requires…

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This book is based on more than 35 years of experience litigating capital punishment cases in the Deep South.
Bright, who led the Southern Center for Human Rights, and his co-author James Kwak, go deep into the belly of the criminal justice system and assess how poverty and race affect everything from a prosecutor’s charging decisions to how juries are selected to sentencing decisions. An important takedown.

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