You probably don't know who Edward Lee Elmore is, I didn’t. But after you read Raymond Bonner's “Anatomy of Injustice: A murder case gone wrong”, you’ll know all you need to about the flaws in our judicial system and why the death penalty should be abolished.Mr. Elmore sat in prison for 25 years ...
Given this ratio, South Carolina could argue it was not guilty of racism in the application of the death penalty. But all the victims in the cases that put those men on death row were white, save three. This same pattern held in other death penalty states. In Illinois, when the victim was white, ...