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The Effects Of Race On Sentencing In Capital Punishment Cases
Part one of term paper
Throughout history, minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal justice
system, particularly in cases where the possible outcome is death. In early
America, blacks were lynched for the slightest violation of informal laws and
many of these killings occured without any type of due process. As the judicial
system has matured, minori ...
Part two of term paper ... the death penalty was being
handed out unfairly and according to Gest (1996) the Supreme Court felt the
death penalty was being imposed "freakishly' and ‘wantonly" and "most often on
blacks." Several years later in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the
Supreme Court decided, with efficient controls, the death penalty could be used
constitutionally. Yet, even with these various controls, the system does not
effectively eliminate racial bias.
According to Professor Steven Goldstein of Flori ...
Word count: 894 | Approximate pages: 4
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