Sia Sanneh of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama sits down as part of Stephen Bright's Yale course Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage to discuss the Initiative's research into peremptory strikes in Alabama courts. She walks through findings showing how prosecutors have used jury strikes to remove qualified black jurors from capital trials, drawing on case files and county-level data the Initiative compiled. The conversation covers how courts have responded to Batson challenges, why proving discriminatory intent is so difficult in practice, and what the pattern of strikes reveals about who ends up deciding death penalty cases. Sanneh grounds the discussion in specific Alabama counties and cases rather than abstract legal theory, giving a concrete picture of how jury selection functions as a point of racial disparity in the capital punishment system.