Summary
For cases that were eligible for death, we catalogued details such as what weapon was used, whether co-defendants participated in the killing, whether drugs or a sex crime were involved, and whether police obtained a confession. When court records were scant, the newspaper filed Georgia Open Records Act requests with state and local law enforcement agencies, medical examiners' offices and district attorneys.
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Life or Death
The idea for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's death penalty project, "A Matter of Life or Death," came to our legal affairs reporter a decade ago.
In 1997, Bill Rankin wrote a story about the 25th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Furman v. Georgia. Furman abolished the death penalty on the grounds that courts were carrying it out in an arbitrary manner. Ge...See the full content of this document
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