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Adam Liptak Strikes Again
11:26AM ON
04/29/2008
BY
Ariel Werner
This time with a commentary on race and the death penalty. I’m starting to love this guy. In today’s Times, Liptak examines a forthcoming study by the Houston Law Review on racial disparities in the application of the death penalty in Harris County, Texas. He writes:
The unexceptional finding is that defendants who kill whites are more likely to be sentenced to death than those who kill blacks. More than 20 studies around the nation have come to similar conclusions.
But the new study also detected a more straightforward disparity. It found that the race of the defendant by itself plays a major role in explaining who is sentenced to death.
Check it, and look for more of Liptak’s pieces in which he brings to light the harsh truths of our criminal justice system.
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