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A New Look at Race When Death Is Sought

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That's the title of Adam Liptak's latest Sidebar column in today's New York Times.  LINK  Liptak reports on a study to be published in the Houston Law Review, "Racial Disparities in the Capital of Capital Punishment," by Scott Phillips of the University of Denver. Here's the beginning of Liptak's article:About 1,100 people have been executed in the United States in the last three decades. Harris County, Tex., which includes Houston, accounts for more than 100 of those executions. Indeed, Harris County has sent more people to the death chamber than any state but Texas itself. Yet Harris County?s capital justice system has not been the subject of intensive research ? until now. A new study to be published in The Houston Law Review this fall has found two sorts of racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty there, one commonplace and one surprising...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).