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Rejon Taylor?s death sentence and race

By cdw

In Chatanooga, local media are asking, did race play a factor in sending Rejon Taylor to death? Statistically and overwhelmingly when the victim is white and the defendant is an African American they certainly ask and seek the death penalty,” Bill Ortwein, Taylor’s attorney, says. With that in mind, we sat down and poured through a number of death row studies and statistics today. Taylor makes the 56th Federal Death Row inmate in the country - currently twenty-seven blacks and twenty-three whites make up the majority of prisoners waiting execution. When specifically looking into race we went to the Death Penalty Information Center and found stats for executions involving interracial murders. Remember that Taylor, an African American, murdered Guy Luck, a white male...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).