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by Eileen Servidio, Ph.D.
I received a phone call two days before the execution of Troy Davis from a journalist. Her question was simply « Can I say this execution is based on racism ? »
I truly had no idea. I sent her to the Death Penalty Information Center to get the statistics.
New phone call, same journalist : « More whites have been executed than blacks since 1976 ». She seemed to regret this fact very much.
It is true though; 56% of the executions were of whites and only 35% were blacks. However, if one puts that into perspective with the percentage of blacks in the USA, one can conclude that actually a black person has more of a chance to receive the death penalty than a white person.
Even more interesting are the statistics given by the Death Penalty Information Center... Read More
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