“This study forced the people in California to confront the unfairness of how the death penalty is applied in this state. The decision of who will live and who will die in California turns on arbitrary and unlawful factors such as the race and ethnicity of the murder victim or the location where the murder was committed.”
“Although the Supreme Court rejected these factors, almost two decades later we are still seeing that race plays a significant role in the selection of who will be sentenced to death.”
