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The Death Penalty in Black and White
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1994
by Michael Ross
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1994, page 4
By Michael Ross
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Victims,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty.
Location:
United States of America.
"[The] evidence shows that there is a better than even chance in Georgia that race will influence the decision to impose the death penalty: a majority of defendants in white-victim crimes would not have been sentenced to die if their victims had been black."
Surprisingly those words …
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