Study: Killers Are Less Likely to Be Executed if Their Victims Are Black
by Jenée Desmond-Harris - Vox
Crime • February 2015 • Views: 1,674
It’s almost as though Black lives don’t actually matter in our justice system.
The researchers found that it was exceptionally hard to find examples of killers of black male victims who were executed. “Black men, especially among the relatively young, have a statistical risk of homicide victimization many times higher than any other racial or gender group, ” they wrote, “but their killers rarely face the death penalty.”
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