America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black man on Georgia’s death row, took proof to the US Supreme Court that his trial and sentence had been affected by racial prejudice . It’s a landmark case that nearly every law student in American is familiar with -- but few of us know the whole story.
And I sort of said, "Well, Gird up your loins. If that’s, in fact, a problem in our criminal justice system, we have to confront it. We can’t simply avert our eyes."Life of the Law reporter Sarah Marshall traveled to Georgia to learn more about the man whose name has come to symbolize the end of equal protection under the law in America.
-- Attorney John Boger
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From Slate Magazine, Stephen Yenser reads his poem "Variations (for Three Old Saws)."
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