Racial Disparities in the Federal Death Penalty

Racial discrimination and the death penalty have been a matter of scholarly interest since the early part of the 20th century. Our nation’s legal system has been aware of the issue since the beginning of the civil rights movement. Every legal forum that has addressed the issue has condemned the idea of race influencing the administration of the federal death penalty in one form or another. Nevertheless, we can all agree that this practice has no place in a society that is dedicated to the rule of law. Research reveals that only one legislative body has adopted a law that would give murder defendants the right to advance claims of racial discrimination in the same manner available to racial minorities in the employment, housing, and public accommodations contexts. 1988 Ky. Acts 252. This study focuses on racial discrimination in the administration of the federal death penalty. The Statutes are examined in the use of the administration of the federal death penalty, are the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Act of 1988, otherwise known as the Drug Kingpin Act, and the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994, a part of the Omnibus Crime Bill of 1994. Also, examined is the link between discretion and discrimination. The researcher attempts to determine what effect the respective statutes have on the minority populations.Master of Public AdministrationPublic AdministrationUniversity of Michigan-Flinthttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143255/1/Shabazz.pd

Panel Discussion: Best Practices and Service Integration

Panelists will briefly describe two best practice programs in Philadelphia and Wilmington and discuss service integration of Behavioral Health and HIV Prevention. Time: 52 minute

Potential Activities of Freshwater Exo- and Endo-Acting Extracellular Peptidases in East Tennessee and the Pocono Mountains

Proteins constitute a particularly bioavailable subset of organic carbon and nitrogen in aquatic environments but must be hydrolyzed by extracellular enzymes prior to being metabolized by microorganisms. Activities of extracellular peptidases (protein-degrading enzymes) have frequently been assayed in freshwater systems, but such studies have been limited to substrates for a single enzyme [leucyl aminopeptidase (Leu-AP)] out of more than 300 biochemically recognized peptidases. Here, we report kinetic measurements of extracellular hydrolysis of five substrates in 28 freshwater bodies in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in the Pocono Mountains (PA, United States) and near Knoxville (TN, United States), between 2013 and 2016. The assays putatively test for four aminopeptidases (arginyl aminopeptidase, glyclyl aminopeptidase, Leu-AP, and pyroglutamyl aminopeptidase), which cleave N-terminal amino acids from proteins, and trypsin, an endopeptidase, which cleaves proteins mid-chain. Aminopeptidase and the trypsin-like activity were observed in all water bodies, indicating that a diverse set of peptidases is typical in freshwater. However, ratios of peptidase activities were variable among sites: aminopeptidases dominated at some sites and trypsin-like activity at others. At a given site, the ratios remained fairly consistent over time, indicating that they are driven by ecological factors. Studies in which only Leu-AP activity is measured may underestimate the total peptidolytic capacity of an environment, due to the variable contribution of endopeptidases