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Emily Paavola

A Jury of Your Peers? Not Always in South Carolina

January 11, 2016 by Emily Paavola and Lindsey Vann

In November of 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in Foster v. Chatman, a Georgia death penalty case where prosecutors struck all four African Americans from the jury pool. As a result, Timothy Tyrone Foster, an African American man accused of killing a white woman, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to… Read More →

South Carolina Mirrors Nation in Decline of Death Penalty

January 6, 2016 by Emily Paavola

America’s use of the death penalty declined significantly in 2015, according to a recent report from the Death Penalty Information Center. As of Dec. 15, 49 new death sentences have been imposed this year — the lowest annual number since the 1970s — and 28 executions have been carried out, the lowest number since 1991. The… Read More →

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