Letter: There Are Many Reasons to End the Death Penalty

Letter: There are many reasons to end the death penalty

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The Fight to End the Death Penalty Starts With Naming Its Racist Roots

Civil rights attorney Furonda Brasfield joined Karen Hunter on SiriusXM Urban View to discuss her work with the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty and the racial inequities she says are built into capital punishment. Brasfield, the organization’s director of leadership development, told Hunter she has spent more than a decade working as a death penalty abolitionist. She began with the Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty while att…