Stephen Bright, teaching Yale's course on Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage, examines how juries are selected in death penalty cases. The class covers voir dire questioning of prospective jurors on pretrial publicity, racial attitudes, and views on capital punishment, along with the use of peremptory strikes to remove jurors. Bright traces the history of peremptory strikes being used to exclude racial minorities and weighs whether Supreme Court rulings against such discrimination actually work in practice. Sia Sanneh of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama presents the Initiative's findings on discriminatory strike patterns in Alabama courts, and Marla Sandys of Indiana University discusses her research on how jurors actually reach life-and-death decisions. The lecture combines legal doctrine with empirical findings on jury behavior, focusing on the mechanics and fairness of assembling a capital jury.