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Originally Posted by LG999
If the article/study does not tell you what race the killer is in each incident, how can you draw any conclusion?
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Don't believe what you read in the original post. The author of that post, Choro&Swing did not bother to finish reading the study. The race of both the killer and the victim is given. But that is not what this study was about.
For the third time, at least, this study is a follow up to a previous study done in Georgia which proved that in Georgia the race of the victim and the killer was an important factor in whether the death penalty was imposed by the justice system.
Please stop posting that we should not record race or notice race. The justice system notices race and is unequal in its application. The scales are tilted in favor of white people. This is not necessarily intentional but all you have to do to understand how a black person in the justice system is disadvantaged by his color is read the posts on this thread. There is a presumption that a black person is more likely to be a criminal. You can't undo that in a juror's mind.
This study was done to see what happened to all the persons who were sentenced to death in Georgia in the original study. If race was meaningless after sentencing, as the SCOTUS has suggested it would be, then there would be no difference in the rate at which the death penalty was carried out when race was looked as as a variable.
This study which was not a poll, not based on made up numbers, not manipulated, not contrived... this study looked at the outcome of all death sentences and showed that race matters even after sentencing in how the death penalty is imposed. Executions are not race neutral. That is all this paper showed. And it only examined Georgia's sample. This paper is a legal analysis of death penalty jurisprudence and was presented to argue that the present status of SCOTUS decisions on whether executions are race based needs to be re-examined.
Read the paper. The entire paper.