BTW, claiming discrimination because most inmates on the death row are minorities is false logic. One needs to show that minorities committing similar crimes have a greater chance of ending on the death row (i.e. showing that, say, fewer white ax murderers ended on the death row than black ax murderers did).
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The statistical evidence of discrimination is that a minority who kills a white person is four to six times as likely to get death as a minority who kills a minority,a w hite to kills a minority, oir a white who kills a white. This fact (the reserach is robust and quite solid) was rejected as grounds for an equal protection challenge to a death sentence in McClesky v. Klemp. The S.Ct said you have to show that your own death sentence involved discrimination, statistical evidence wasn't good enough. jks
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