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Prosecutor Seeks Stay of Execution for Texas Prisoner Duane Buck, Sentenced to Death for Being Black

4,295 views · Published 1 April 2013 · 14:17 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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http://www.democracynow.org - Although Duane Buck's guilt is not in question for the 1995 murder of his former girlfriend Debra Gardner and her friend Kenneth Butler, critics say jurors in his case were led to choose a death sentence over life without parole based on testimony of a state psychologist who argued that African-American criminals are more likely to pose a future danger to the public. We're joined by two guests: Linda Geffin, the second chair prosecutor who helped win Buck's death sentence in 1997, but now opposes his execution; and Christina Swarns, an attorney with Duane Buck's legal defense team and director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Criminal Justice Project.

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