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• Death still arbitrary | The cases
• 10 reasons to impose the death penalty
• Same crime, different outcome
• The racial factor
• Video: Victim's father
• Two views:
Tucker | Wooten
• A death case derailed
• DAs: Where cases diverge
• Cases by county:
Clayton | Cobb | DeKalb
Fulton | Gwinnett
• Interactive map: Georgia death penalty cases by court circuit
• Prosecutors divided on armed-robbery murders
• Death penalty could be on way out
• Juries lean toward life without parole
• Timeline
• Court botched reviews
• By the numbers
• Is review process fixable?


RESPONSE:
• Defense attorneys urge new reviews of cases
• Reform ideas vary

MULTIMEDIA
• Quizzes: Can you guess the verdict?
– Love gone awry
– Child killers
– Sex crimes
– Armed robberies
• Map: Georgia death penalty cases by court circuit
• Video: Victim's father

BACKGROUND
• How we analyzed the data
• Murder convictions data (Excel file) | Key to the data file (Word doc)
• Criminologist's report (Word doc)
• Reasons for overturning death sentences (Excel file)
• Proportionalty data (Excel file)


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