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239Bettmann/Getty ImagesIn this 1934 photograph, students from Howard University in Washington, D.C., stand outside the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum wearing nooses around their necks as part of a protest against the National Crime Conference%u2019s decision not to include lynching in its program.What might Bryan Stevenson consider the reason lynching was not addressed at this conference? To what extent would Stevenson consider the subject of lynching to have been effectively addressed since then? Explain.or both. Meanwhile, in capital trials today the accused is often the only person of color in the courtroom and illegal racial discrimination in jury selection continues to be widespread. In Houston County, Alabama, prosecutors have excluded 80 percent of qualified AfricanAmericans from serving as jurors in death penalty cases.More than eight in ten American lynchings between 1889 and 1918 occurred in the South, and more than eight in ten of the more than 1,400 legal executions carried out in this country since 1976 have been in the South, where the legacy of the nation%u2019s embrace of slavery lingers. Today death sentences are disproportionately meted out to African-Americans accused of crimes against white victims; efforts to combat racial bias and create federal protection against it in death penalty cases remain thwarted by the familiar rhetoric of states%u2019 rights. Regional data demonstrate that the modern American death penalty has its origins in racial terror and is, in the words of Bright, the legal scholar, %u201ca direct descendant of lynching.%u201dIn the face of this national ignominy, there is still an astonishing failure to acknowledge, discuss, or address the history of lynching. Many of the communities where lynchings took place have gone to great lengths to erect markers and memorials to the Civil War, to What does Stevenson mean by %u201cnational ignominy%u201d (par. 28) and what tone does this vivid diction create? What evidence has built to this claim?35 Bryan Stevenson3Copyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.