Can the death penalty still be said to discriminate by race since today, unlike in the past, African-Americans are executed in a proportion that is more consistent with their representation on death row?
What will be an ideal response?
An argument that racial discrimination still exists is supported by reference to the remaining disproportionate representation of African-Americans on death row in comparison to their proportion of the general population. Prosecutorial discretion has been shown in many studies to result in racial and ethnic disparity. But even if offender characteristics are less significant today than in the past, there remains the very strong evidence that racial discrimination still occurs since persons who murder white victims are much more likely to receive the death penalty than are persons whose victim was not white. An argument that racial discrimination no longer exists could be made for offender characteristics if it is supported by evidence that black men disproportionately commit capital murder, but it would be difficult to build an argument against the statistics regarding victim race.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false