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Federal Death Penaltyin Black and Blue
Although NY State has essentially abolished the death penalty, the feds persist. In fact, the federal Federal death penalty seems focused on New York with NY running second only to terrorist forum of choice VA in death cases. The interesting factoid: 95 percent of those the feds look to kill are members of minorities. Thus far Of the 37 capital cases in New York, 14 were resolved before going to trial. Of the remaining 23, none resulted in a death sentence. Maybe New Yorkers understand just how racially biased things really are.
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Would you be so kind as to clarify your numbers, please? 14 + 13 = 27, not 37. Thank you!
P.S., My husband and I both loved your book. Now he gets what I mean when I say I'm not cut out to be a public defender.
My Bad.
Fixing now.
Thanks.
D.
Alternatively, maybe New Yorkers just are death penalty averse (which is why the state does not have an effective DP). I'm sure most juries in NY don't have the slightest clue that there is a numerical disparity. If they did, they are probably smart enough to realize that the fact of a numerical disparity alone proves exactly nothing about the cause of the numerical disparity.
If you wanna play the race card to score some cheap points against the death penalty, you have to show more than a bare disparity of numbers. The elementary principles of logic still apply, even in New York.
Cultural biases are, by their very nature, illogical. Logic and racism have nothing to do with one another.
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