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The Unequal Application Of The Death Penalty In The United States: Critical Analysis And A Just Solution, Muriel Mena
The Unequal Application Of The Death Penalty In The United States: Critical Analysis And A Just Solution, Muriel Mena
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Considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to the question of whether the application of the death penalty in the United States is racially biased. The legacy of the injustices and racial biases that Blacks experience in the United States continues to manifest in ways that have lethal consequences. The lethality of this is indicated by the fact that persons of color who are convicted of crimes punishable by the death penalty are more likely to receive the death sentence than whites convicted of the same crime. Regarding why this is the case, one needs to employ an approach designed to …