"Graves was convicted in 1994 of assisting Robert Carter in multiple murders in 1992" according to the article. ... Cholbi states that "Empirical studies dating back to the 1940s indicate that, all other things being equal, racial minorities, particularly African-Americans, are disproportionately more likely to receive the death penalty for murder than are convicted whites", in his article "Race, Capital Punishment, and the Cost of Murder". ... Those states with Capital Punishment still in their system are suffering from high cost of the death penalty. ... It is a...

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