ACLU Report Shows How Death Penalty Jury Selection Discriminates Against Black Americans, Women, and People of Faith | Death Penalty Information Center

ACLU Report Shows How Death Penalty Jury Selection Discriminates Against Black Americans, Women, and People of Faith | Death Penalty Information Center

A new report from the ACLU doc­u­ments how the process of select­ing juries for death penal­ty cas­es sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly excludes Black prospec­tive jurors, women, and peo­ple of faith, fun­da­men­tal­ly under­min­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al promise of a tri­al by a jury of one’s peers. The report, *Fatal Flaws: Revealing the Racial and Religious Gerrymandering of the Capital Jury*, exam­ines the prac­tice of ​“death qual­i­fi­ca­tion,” a requir…