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Article #40Re: State Killings and Persons of Color
From: Claude Huss
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 05:43
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 05:43
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>>>>> "Karen" == schneide@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Karen Schneider) <BsF9rs.5Iq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Karen> On the Clinton b-board, I posted a comment suggesting that capital punishment Karen> sentences are disproportionately levied on poor men of color. The person who Karen> responded commented that poor men of color disproportionately commit violent Karen> crimes. My guess is that death row is still overrrepresented by poor men of Karen> color, all out of proportion to the number of convictions for the crimes that Karen> can lead to such sentencing. Anyone have any statistics on this? Karen> Thanks... I'm not sure but I read in Newsweek this year that the great parcel of death setences in USA in the last 30 years were to WHITE MEN. I discussed this point with my wife, and we couldn't believe whether that data was true or not... -- Claude Huss Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. Tokyo Research Labs. Phone: +81-3-3452-4941 FAX: +81-3-3451-0793 Home:(044) 549-4913 Mita 5-13-2, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 108, JAPAN DISCLAIMER:"I'm not singing, dancing, joking or even working for my employer"
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Newsgroups: fj.misc,fj.soc.law Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!etl.go.jp!oskgate0.mei!chorus.mei!saturn.mew!srl!claude From: claude@trc.mew.mei.co.jp (Claude Huss) Subject: Re: State Killings and Persons of Color In-Reply-To: schneide@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu's message of 3 Aug 92 19:21:27 GMT Message-ID: <CLAUDE.92Aug5144325@tokyo.trc.mew.mei.co.jp> Sender: usenet@srl.mew.mei.co.jp (USENet News Admin) Organization: Matsushita Electric Works Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. References: <BsF9rs.5Iq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 05:43:25 GMT Lines: 24