An Investigation Into How Prosecutors Picked Death-Penalty Juries

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : The one with the oldest case arrived on death row in 1981; the most recent was sentenced in 2016.
45% : She had previously worked at the California Appellate Project in San Francisco, a nonprofit organization that helps lawyers representing people on death row.
41% : In the next few decades, California prosecutors sent more than a thousand people to death row.
38% : Dykes had committed a murder during the course of a robbery in 1993, when he was twenty years old, and he was convicted and sent to death row.
28% : Preparing for and trying a death-penalty case could take at least a year, and after Anderson or Quatman sent a defendant to death row they framed his mug shot and hung it on their office wall, next to a copy of his death verdict.
22% : Governor Newsom declared the moratorium in 2019, but there are still more than six hundred people, including twenty women, with death sentences in California -- more than in any other state.

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