Capital Punishment and the Legacies of Slavery and Lynching in the United States

Capital punishment in the United States is racialized: those convicted of the murder of Whites are much more likely to receive the death penalty than those convicted for the murder of Blacks. Capital punishment is more commonly practiced in places where lynching of Blacks occurred more frequently an...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2021-03, Vol.694 (1), p.205-219
Hauptverfasser:	RIGBY, DAVID, SEGUIN, CHARLES
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Black people Capital punishment Contemporary Analyses and Implications Lynchings Murders & murder attempts Punishment Slavery
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