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lynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:33 PM
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36. Being black is a PLUS if you're on death row -
- based on Bureau of Justice stats for 2004:

Of persons executed in 2004:

-- 36 were white
-- 19 were black
-- 3 were Hispanic (all white)
-- 1 Asian

Of persons under sentence of death in 2004:
-- 1,851 were white
-- 1,390 were black
-- 28 were American Indian
-- 32 were Asian
-- 14 were of unknown race.

Looks like all that talk about the death penalty being racist is just talk.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm
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