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An Associated Press review of dozens of legal filings shows that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is fighting just as vigorously as Donald Trump’s did to uphold death row inmates’ sentences.
People showed up. >> there was the notion if you were black and you got caught up in the criminal justice system, your chances of going to jail or prison was far greater. >> the history of our state is pretty well known, and it's always been a struggle. i think race probably touches just about every issue that emerges here in some fashion, to some degree. my attitude is that jim crow never died. it just dresses better and has better table manners. >> sabrina didn't get a fair trial. she didn't get a good trial. that one stayed with me more than i'd like to admit. >> as sabrina's appeals began,...
Obama has said time and again this is a nation of second chances. but i think when you get to those death row cases, clearly they're a little more complicated because oftentimes they're dealing with violent crimes where this massive push we've seen in the latter part of president obama's presidency has focused primarily on those street crimes. when you talk about reversing the disparity between the crack cocaine sentencing laws and the powder cocaine. we're talking about that ilk. first-time offenders who end up being sentenced to 20, 30, 40 years in prison. that's a little more complicated th...
That. >> this is it. >> jon ramsey discovers the body. who who are they protecting? >> we are told the son burke was cleared by dna in the years after. dna was found around the underwear of jonbenet. >> dna can't testify and it lastses thousands, hundreds of years. weeks and days. you don't really know how the dna the gets to the victim or in the crime scene unless the it is completely, i guess, handled 100% properly. we see it in death row cases. dna needs supportive evidence. the supportive evidence of the dna goes in the exact opposite direction. the mother appears she wrote the ransom note...
>> jon ramsey discovers the body. who who are they protecting? >> we are told the son burke was cleared by dna in the years after. dna was found around the underwear of jonbenet. >> dna can't testify and it lastses thousands, hundreds of years. weeks and days. you don't really know how the dna the gets to the victim or in the crime scene unless the it is completely, i guess, handled 100% properly. we see it in death row cases. dna needs supportive evidence. the supportive evidence of the dna goes in the exact opposite direction. the mother appears she wrote the ransom note. jon ramsey finds th...