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Race, the Death Penalty, and Louisiana

By Steve Hall

"Paper sees bias in EBR death cases," is the title of Joe Gyan Jr.'s report for the Baton Rouge Advocate.  It appeared in the February 20 edition on the front page. A new research paper alleges racial bias in death sentencing in East Baton Rouge Parish and concludes the odds of such a penalty are 2.6 times higher for those who kill white people than for those who kill black people. Current and former East Baton Rouge Parish prosecutors label the allegation ?offensive,?? accuse the authors of race-baiting and point out that defendants choose the race of their victims. ?Nobody is charging intentional racial bias. This is a much more subtle thing,?? explained Michael Radelet, a sociology professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder and co-author of the article published in the Louisiana Law Review...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).