The Powell Hypothesis: Race and non-capital sentences for murder in Kentucky, 1976–1991
The 1987 U.S. Supreme Court decision McCleskey v. Kemp ruled, in part, that the findings of the Baldus study, offered by the petitioner to support a claim of racial bias in death penalty cases, were insufficient to demonstrate unconstitutional discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice L...
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2000
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American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2000, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 287-300 |
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