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Houston Chronicle Coverage of Race Study

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On Tuesday, Adam Liptak reported on scholarship, "Racial Disparities in the Capital of Capital Punishment," by Scott Phillips of the University of Denver, noted in this post.  Today's Houston Chronicle has a news article and commentary by columnist Lisa Falkenberg. "Study suggests bias in death penalty cases,"is Allan Turner's report.A new study on how race affects the way death penalty cases are handled in Harris County, the so-called "capital of capital punishment," finds that black offenders are more likely than whites to be placed on trial for their lives, even when their crimes are relatively less heinous. In the study, to be published in the fall issue of Houston Law Journal, University of Denver sociology professor Scott Phillips concludes that black defendants are 1...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).