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215 “McCleskey challenges decisions” Ibid.
215 “Since it is my view” Quoted in Dennis D. Dorin, “Far Right of the Mainstream: Racism, Rights, and Remedies from the Perspective of Justice Antonin Scalia’s McCleskey Memorandum,” Mercer Law Review 45 (1993-1994): 1038.
216 “Yes, McCleskey v. Kemp” John Calvin Jeffries, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), 451.
216 “a pattern of evidence” General Accounting Office, “Death Penalty Sentencing: Research Indicates Pattern of Racial Disparities,” GAO-GGD-90-57, February 1990, 5.
217 “The legitimacy of deterrence” Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. (2008), Stevens concurrence.
217 “Justice Stevens’ analysis” Baze v. Rees, Scalia concurrence.
218 “In short, the best reading” Cass Sunstein and Justin Wolfers, “A Death Penalty Puzzle,” Washington Post, June 30, 2008, A11.
219 “remarkable in number” Kansas v. Marsh, dissent, June 26, 2006.
219 listed 340 prisoners Samuel R. Gross et al., “Exonerations in the United States 1989 through 2003,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 95, no. 2 (2005): 523-560.
219 “So, let’s give the professor” Joshua Marquis, “The Innocent and the Shammed,” New York Times, January 26, 2006, A23.
220 Rapes and murders are just a tiny percentage Matthew R. Durose and Patrick A. Langan, “State Court Sentencing of Convicted Felons, 2002 Statistical Tables,” NCJ 208910, Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, May 2005.
221 between 3 and 5 percent of those convictions D. Michael Risinger, “Innocents Convicted: An Empirically Justified Factual Wrongful Conviction Rate,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 97, no. 3 (2007): 761-806.
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223 The chapter epigraph is drawn from Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner (New York: Vintage, 1965), 85-86.
225 “Time and again” “Briefings: A Ritual of Noncommunication,” Time, October 10, 1969.
225 “encouraged” Charles Seife, “Pie in the sky,” New Scientist, April 10, 1999, 1414.
226 “I was trained to believe” Samuel Freedman, Letters to a Young Journalist (New York: Basic Books, 2006), 50.
227 “One would like to cite countless facts” Joseph Alsop, “Joint Vietnamization Efforts Are Working in Delta Hamlets,” Washington Post, September 26, 1969, A27.
228 was better for the environment CNW Marketing Research, Inc., “Dust to Dust: The Energy Cost of New Vehicles From Concept to Disposal,” March 2007, available at http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/.
228n “In the political backrooms” Joseph C. Harsch, “The Politics of Peace,” Christian Science Monitor, January 9, 1969, 18.
229 “Speaking of Hummers” George F. Will, “Fuzzy Climate Math,” Washington Post, April 12, 2007, A27.
230 “the possibility of increased risk of breast cancer” Texas Health and Safety Code §171.012(1)(B)(iii).
230 a 30 percent greater chance J. Brind et al., “Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 50 (1996): 481-496.
232 “increased risk of suicidal ideation and suicide” South Dakota Codified Laws, 34-23A-10.1(1)(e)(ii).
232 According to a 2005 Finnish study Mika Gissler et al., “Injury deaths, suicides, and homicides associated with pregnancy, Finland, 1987-2000,” European Journal of Public Health 15, no. 5 (2005): 459-463.
233 a great deal of praise and attention James Lindgren, “Fall from Grace: Arming America and the Bellesiles Scandal,” Yale Law Journal, June 2002, 2195-2249.
233 one set of Bellesiles’s numbers was mathematically impossible Ibid., 2198.
233 “extremely sloppy documentation” Stanley N. Katz, Hanna H. Gray, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Report of the Investigative Committee in the matter of Professor Michael Bellesiles,” Emory University, July 10, 2002, 11, available at http://www.emory.edu/news/Releases/Final_Report.pdf.
233 “evidence of falsification” Ibid., 19.
237 “On several occasions seismic