THE DEATH PENALTY

Is it applied fairly?

• 42 percent of the death row inmates are black.
  
• 78 percent of the defendants selected for capital prosecution were black.

Could an innocent person be sent to death?

• Since 1987, there have been over 110 persons released from death row.
  
• Journalists, authors and students account for more exonerations than police, judges and prosecutors combined.

CURE Position

No more Executions in the U.S.A.