Graduation Year
Fall 2014
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Legal Studies
Reader 1
Jennifer Groscup
Reader 2
Mark Golub
Rights Information
© 2013 Sasha Bassi
Abstract
Racial discrimination in capital punishment has been documented from the 1700s to today. Among the 32 states that still have the death penalty, some have implemented measures at a legislative or judicial level to prevent the arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the result of one such effort, the North Carolina Racial Justice Act. Doing so will help determine if this is a model that other states should replicate, and if so, how it should be altered for a successful reimplementation.
Recommended Citation
Bassi, Sasha, "Remedying Racial Discrimination in Capital Punishment: An Evaluation of the North Carolina Racial Justice Act" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 312.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/312
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
