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The Effects Of Race On Sentencing In Capital Punishment Cases
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Throughout history, minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal
justice system, particularly in cases where the possible outcome is death. In
early America, blacks were lynched for the slightest violation of informal laws
and many of these killings occurred without any type of due proces ....
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....room brawls that wouldn't call for the death
penalty, but many white murders occur on top of another offense, such as robbery”
(As cited in Gest, 1986, 25). This may be true but the Washington Legal
Foundation offers their own explanation by arguing that “blacks are arrested for
murder at a higher rate than are whites. When arrest totals are factored in, '
the probability of a white murderer ending up on death row is 33 percent greater
than in the case of a black murderer (As cited in Gest, 19.... |
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