Death Penalty

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 3 21:10:31 PST 1999


Rkmickey at aol.com wrote:


>Are you sure this is true? The latest Gallup poll on the death penalty isn't
>broken down by either occupation or income level but if you use race as a
>proxy for class the more affluent are more into capital punishment than poor
>folks.

I'll bet this is one case where you can't use race as a proxy for class, given the racial makeup of death row - 42% black <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t677.pdf>.



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