Pennsylvania's death penalty system would be more fair if all confessions were taped, biological evidence was better preserved and more money was spent on legal defense, according to a bar association report released Tuesday. A five-member team under the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project spent 2 1/2 years studying how capital murder cases are investigated and tried, reported The Associated Press. The report warned that Pennsylvania's application of the death penalty is inconsistent and found that people convicted of murders with similar circumstances often receive very different sentences. Blacks are being sentenced to execution more often than whites, it said. «When you're dealing with the death penalty, you have to be right,» the ABA's president-elect, H. Thomas Wells Jr., said at a news conference. «This is not a system that delivers the justice citizens of Pennsylvania expect.»
