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- Title
THE FUTILE QUEST FOR RACIAL NEUTRALITY IN CAPITAL SELECTION AND THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT ARGUMENT FOR ABOLITION BASED ON UNCONSCIOUS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
- Authors
Howe, Scott W.
- Abstract
Focuses on the impact of racial discrimination on the effort of the Supreme Court to regulate capital sentencing in the U.S. Characteristics of capital selection that promote the influence of racial bias; Presentation of statistical evidence of racial discrimination in death sentencing; Details of the Eight Amendment argument for abolition based on unconscious racial discrimination.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RACE discrimination; CRIMINAL sentencing; CAPITAL punishment; UNITED States. Supreme Court; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
William & Mary Law Review, 2004, Vol 45, Issue 5, p2083
- ISSN
0043-5589
- Publication type
Article