County Attorney Laura Conover is right to argue that Gov. Katie Hobbs’ study of the death penalty in Arizona should be expanded to assess bias and injustice within the justice system. Equity includes racial and ethnic disparities. That is why the NAACP is calling for the abolition of the death penalty.
A book by prominent former Pima County homicide prosecutor Rick Unclesbay, titled Arbitrary Deaths: A Prosecutor’s Perspective on the Death Penalty, provides the telltale facts, procedural processes, and procedures of many extreme criminal cases in Arizona. It details the results and concludes based on evidence and results. – The death penalty was arbitrarily applied. Arbitrary application of the law is unjust. It violates substantial due process and the guarantee of equal protection of the law and is therefore unconstitutional.
The evidence presented in Unklesbay’s book should be considered by the governor’s team evaluating Arizona’s capital punishment. (Unklesbay donated all book proceeds to Homicide Survivors, Inc., a non-profit organization that helps families of murder victims.)
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Amelia Craig Cramer, NAACP Tucson Division Vice President Retired Pima County Attorney General
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