Capital Punishment: Does Race Matter? The employment of the death penalty as the ultimate criminal sanction has been the subject of enormous debate both in the United States and internationally. Execution has been challenged not only on moral grounds, but on constitutional grounds. Specifically, capital punishment ... ability to render reliable verdicts in capital cases." (Amnesty International, p.14) Some of the juror comments included in the study were " He (the defendant) was a big man who looked like a criminal...He was big and Black....So I guess when I saw him I thought this fits the p...

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