... Commit Murder." However, these interpretations of various passages from the either the Bible or the Commandments are often quoted out of context which then corrupts the sympathetic attitude of Judaism and Christianity, in which they both clearly focuses on redemption and forgiveness, and urge humanity to be ... primarily on the race of the victim, not on that of the defendant" (Berger 355). Only thirty-one out of the more than fifteen thousand recorded executions in the United States have been of Caucasian defendants convicted of killing African American victims, while African American de...

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