Podcasts Culture Preconceived The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 4:11 p.m.

The Death Penalty is  the most severe sentence that can be passed down onto someone in the judicial system.  John H. Blume of Cornell University is the Samuel F. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques and the Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project.  He joins Zale to discuss the preconceptions regarding capital punishment and some of the disturbing realities of arbitrariness, unreliability and prejudice that are embedded in its sentencing patterns.