McCleskey v. Kemp ft. Josie Duffy Rice
5-4
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The Death Penalty and Race in the United States
In 1978, Warren McCluskey was sentenced to death for killing a police officer during the robbery of a Georgia furniture store. Mr. McCluskey's team decided to challenge his death sentence on the basis that the death penalty in Georgia was administered in a racist way. In 1983, Professor David Baldis published a study which analyzed nearly 2,500 murder cases in Georgia and it showed that race was permeating the decision making all the way through the system.
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