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Since 1991, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has produced quarterly reports containing statistics related to capital punishment in the United States. The reports include a breakdown of the death row population by race, the race of those executed, as well as the race of the victims in each case.
Race Age at execution Age at offense State Method Ref. 1 November 2, 1984 Margie Velma Barfield: White 52 45 North Carolina: Lethal injection [3] 2 February 3, 1998 Karla Faye Tucker: 38 23 Texas [4] 3 March 30, 1998 Judias "Judy" V. Buenoano: 54 28 Florida: Electrocution [5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 Texas Lethal injection [6 ...
Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the offender profiling, selective enforcement or selective prosecution based on race or ethnicity, rather than individual suspicion or evidence. This practice involves discrimination against minority populations and often relies on negative stereotypes .
One looked at more than 55,000 homicide cases in California between 1979 and 2018 and found that Black individuals were more than twice as likely to receive a death sentence as white individuals ...
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Observers argue Murdaugh, who is white, was able to avoid the death penalty because of his wealth, race, and family background, coming from a line of lawyers and prosecutors who presided in ...
McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death sentence of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in the Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to mitigate a death penalty determination without showing a "racially discriminatory ...
The federal death penalty data released by the United States Department of Justice between 1995 and 2000 shows that 682 defendants were sentenced to death. [139] Out of those 682 defendants, the defendant was Black in 48% of the cases, Hispanic in 29% of the cases, and White in 20% of the cases.