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Georgia Death Penalty Study Finds Stark Racial Disparities

August 3, 2020

A new study of Georgia’s death penalty system finds even more racial disparities in the imposition of the ultimate punishment. Building on the well-known Baldus Study, which showed that people who had killed white victims were four times more likely to receive the death penalty than people who had killed Black victims, researchers Scott Phillips and Justin Marceau at the University of Denver looked into defendants who had actually been executed. They found that people who had killed white victims were 17 times more likely to be executed than people who killed Black victims.

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