New Study on the Death Penalty in Louisiana

Louisiana Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty and the Jesuit Social Research Institute have collaborated on a study that addresses the death penalty through a Roman Catholic theological lens – aiming to “demonstrate the ineffectiveness and arbitrariness of our death penalty system as a public policy, including the ways it is unfairly administered across racial, social and economic lines.” The study – co-authored by Alex Mikulich of Louisiana Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty and Sophie Cull of the Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty – gathers the results of all qualitative and quantitative Louisiana-focused studies related to the administration of the death penalty into a single collection. The full study is available at http://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Death-Penalty-in-Louisiana.pdf