<DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> 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). * * * 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</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://rd.yahoo.com/evt=1207/*http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/">SBC Yahoo! DSL</a> - Now only $29.95 per month!