Stephen Bright's Yale course on Capital Punishment, Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage turns here to how the death penalty has actually functioned since the Supreme Court allowed executions to resume in 1976. The segment surveys viewpoints from Supreme Court justices, governors, and commentators, weighing their assessments of whether capital punishment has been applied fairly or effectively over the intervening decades. Rather than presenting a single argument, it assembles competing judgments from people with direct authority over the system, from the bench to the governor's office, letting their disagreements frame the unresolved questions about deterrence, error, and racial and economic disparity that run through the rest of the course. Class readings accompany the lecture. At eighteen minutes, this is a compact review segment rather than a full standalone treatment, best understood as one part of a longer classroom sequence on the machinery and morality of American capital punishment.