The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
Title: The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
Category: /Society & Culture
Details: Words: 1078 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
Category: /Society & Culture
Details: Words: 1078 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 1078 total…Such an illusion is
ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined" (As cited in
Lacayo, 1987, 80). With great effort, the judicial controls can begin to battle the racial bias
of Americas Judicial system but to completely eliminate such a bias, the people involved in the
judicial process must learn to look past the race of the offender or the value of the victim, and
instead focus on circumstances of the crime.