Re: Race is likely to determine DP (NY Times)


"Kris Baker" <kris.baker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Michael Snyder" <msnyder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Peter Dworkin wrote:
ADAM LIPTAK | Sidebar APR. 29, 2008

A New Look at Race When Death Is Sought

About 1,100 people have been executed in the United States in the last
three decades. Harris County, Tex., which includes Houston, accounts
for more than 100 of those executions. Indeed, Harris County has sent
more people to the death chamber than any state but Texas itself.
Yet Harris County?s capital justice system has not been the subject of
intensive research ? until now. A new study to be published in The
Houston Law Review this fall has found two sorts of racial disparities
in the administration of the death penalty there, one commonplace and
one surprising.

The greatest determinant by far in assignment of the death penalty
is not race, but gender. The gender disparity in administration of
the death penalty is 100 times greater than the race disparity, but
no one cares.

No one? Not even YOU?
Wow! A new leaf!


Thought you had me killfiled, Kris.
I guess you DO care...

By the way...

The problem with being a one-note-Johnny, Snyder, is that
you ignore the fact that race + gender come together
alarmingly.

About as meaningless a statement as I've ever heard.
"race + gender come together alarmingly"?
What has that got to do with anything in particular?
What does that even mean?

Blacks are more likely to be executed than whites in the
US justice system -- by some relatively small percentage.
But males are more likely to be executed than females are
by a HUGE percentage. The disparity *IS* separable, and
it *IS* many tens of times greater. Whether it "comes together
alarmingly" or not, I will leave for you to determine.



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