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Old 08-05-2020, 09:05 AM
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I would want to know the race of the killers (those being executed) before I made a conclusion that the whole thing is racist. Isn’t that also important to the conclusion ?
No. That's a different set of data to prove a different set of hypotheses.

In THIS set, this is the hypothesis:

IF the victim is black
THEN the law doesn't consider the murder to be worth harsh punishments (including the death penalty).

IF the victim is white
THEN the law does consider the murder to be worth harsh punishments (including the death penalty).

Therefore

The law values the life of the white victim more than it values the life of the black victim, in the situation of murder victims.