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Article: STUDY FINDS DEATH PENALTY TILT.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2001
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Byline: ERIKA ROSENBERG Gannett News Service
ALBANY - Upstate prosecutors were far more likely to pursue the death penalty than those from New York City and its suburbs, according to a report by the state's capital defense office.
Since the Legislature reinstated the death penalty six years ago, 19 percent of murders occurred in upstate but 61 percent of death-penalty cases did, the report said.
``I believe that the geographic disparities raise grave constitutional problems,'' said Kevin Doyle, who heads the Capital Defender Office, a state-funded organization set up to represent defendants facing the death penalty. ``I don't think it's going ...