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: Capital Defense Weekly

New scholarship on race and the death penalty

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

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Professor Scott Phillips, University of Denver has just published”Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment: Blind Justice Requires a Blindfold,” jin the latest edition of Advance: The Journal of the ACS Issue Groups. From ACS: In Harris County, Texas, the death penalty is more likely to be imposed against black defendants  than white defendants, and death is more likely to be imposed on behalf  of white victims than black victims. These are the findings of Professor Scott Phillips, University of Denver. Phillips’s examination of these findings was distributed in his ACS Issue Brief “Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment: Blind Justice Requires a Blindfold,” just re-released in the latest edition of Advance: The Journal of the ACS Issue Groups...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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