SOC 397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Victims Family
11 Sep 2018
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S y s t e m: an estimated 4. 1% of people on death row are believed to be wrongly convicted, 144 exonerated individuals since 1973, estimated 340 innocent people have been executed in the same time period. Black defendants like mcclesky, who killed white victims, had the highest change of being sentenced to death in georgia: decision: requires proof of explicit racism, fear of opening the floodgates, toleration of some measure of racism. E x e c u t i o n s s i n c e 1 9 7 6 r a c e o f v i c t i m. E x e c u t i o n s s i n c e 1 9 7 6 r a c e o f d e f e n d a n t. Social economic bias: almost all death row prisoners could not afford their own attorney for death penalty cases.
