Also, your information was also not inclusive of Hispanics, which are also minorities. Blacks are not the only minorities.
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Originally Posted by roseylovestosho  I'm sorry, but your information is outdated. The sources show that they are from 1997. These are more current: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf
What you need to understand is that the people are more likely to be put on death row for murdering a white person versus a non-white. That is the crucial information your are missing: Over 75% of the murder victims in cases resulting in an execution were white,
even though nationally only 50% of murder victims generally are white. A study in California found that those who killed whites were over 3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who
killed blacks and over 4 times more likely than those who killed Latinos. (Pierce & Radelet, Santa Clara Law Review 2005) |