Cultural Diversity: Racial Disparity in the Application of the Death Penalty
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The death penalty is one of the most controversial issues on American soil, surpassed only by those condemned to the wages of this irrefutable sin. Minorities such as African-Americans and Hispanics, aggregate this continuous barrage of discrimination. Follow along, and rediscover capital punishment from a black writer's point of view.
Blacks are more likely to face the death penalty than whites in the commission of identical crimes. Governmental murders are alive and well in the
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Survey of Crime and Punishment. The New York Times September 22, 2000. Accessed on October 5, 2004 from: www.nytimes.com Goertzel, T. (2004, July) Capital Punishment and Homicide: Sociological Realities and Econometric Illusions [Online], Available: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article. Kalogeras, S., & Mauer, M. (2004, May) The Sentencing Project: Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System [Online], Available: http://www.sentencingproject.org/ Rovella, D. (1998, June 8) Race Pervades Death Penalty [Online], Available: www.picard.tnstate.edu/~cmcginnis/RacePervadesDeathPenalty.htm