United States of America - EMLER - Death Penalty - April 2025
Date: April 25, 2025
Country: United States of America
Partners: Witness to Innocence, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Report Type: Call for Inputs
Country: United States of America
Partners: Witness to Innocence, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Report Type: Call for Inputs
This response to the Expert Mechanism’s Call for Input highlights systemic racism against
Africans and people of African descent in the United States. It presents the results of
research and studies regarding discrimination against African Americans
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in the context of
traffic and pedestrian stops and arrests, as well as discrimination during the pre-trial and
trial phases of the criminal legal process, including in death penalty cases. It also highlights
racial disparities in wrongful convictions and exonerations, and concludes with a
discussion of the intersection of gender and race in the criminal legal system, sharing the
results of recently published research regarding intersectional discrimination in capital
cases.
