(1) Watch the following TEDTalk by University of Houston law professor David Dow, who also wrote...

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(1) Watch the following TEDTalk by University of Houston law professor David Dow, who also wrote one of the articles for this week: https://www.ted.com/talks/david r dow lessons from deat language=en What was the most interesting point he made in this talk? How does race factor into the system he describes? (2) In Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court of the United States found the death penalty unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, meaning they found a racial component to the use of the death penalty. They reinstated the death penalty in Gregg v. Georgia, stating procedures had changed to eliminate these racial components that led to a higher proportion of minorities being sentenced to death row. Statistics show this to be incorrect. Are there any procedures that could actually remedy this, either during the investigation or at the trial or appeals level? Stated otherwise, could we provide a safeguard to protect minority populations from disproportionately being sentenced to death? (1) Watch the following TEDTalk by University of Houston law professor David Dow, who also wrote one of the articles for this week: https://www.ted.com/talks/david r dow lessons from deat language=en What was the most interesting point he made in this talk? How does race factor into the system he describes? (2) In Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court of the United States found the death penalty unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, meaning they found a racial component to the use of the death penalty. They reinstated the death penalty in Gregg v. Georgia, stating procedures had changed to eliminate these racial components that led to a higher proportion of minorities being sentenced to death row. Statistics show this to be incorrect. Are there any procedures that could actually remedy this, either during the investigation or at the trial or appeals level? Stated otherwise, could we provide a safeguard to protect minority populations from disproportionately being sentenced to death?