Where diversity improves reliability: juries

Where diversity improves reliability: juries

Alabama executed six people in 2024, more than any of the nine states to carry out executions that year, including Texas and Florida. Alabama’s commitment to the death penalty remains unshaken, though courts have reversed at least 170 Alabama death sentences since 1980; though at least nine people have been exonerated and released from Alabama’s death row since 1973; and though multiple executions carried out in Holman prison’s death chamber sin…