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In 1977 the unjust law of capital punishment was once again enforced in the American justice system. The use of Capital punishment has instigated many discussions among American criminologists. The use of the death penalty as a form of justice has been banned from many countries and states but there are still a few American states that believe in this form of punishment. Some of them include Texas, Georgia and Virginia. There have been many academic articles that have discussed the general pros and cons of the death penalty, but there is one specific issue that stands out from the others. This issue includes racism and how it's implicated in the capital punishment system. I will be summarizing and analyzing the key point as well as the rhetorical features of three articles written by researchers in the justice system.There have been numerous debates about the involvement of racism in the death penalty system. Michael Kroll has been a part of these debates by revealing flaws and negative facts initiated by racism in the death penalty system. He wrote the article called "Buckle Of The Death Belt." This article deals with the specific judicial district of Chattahoochee, which is located in the state
* The DA sought the death penalty 38.7 percent of the time when the defendant was black and the victim white, 32.4 percent when both defendant and victim were white, 5.9 percent when both defendant and victim were black, and never when the defendant was white and the victim black; Bowden 12/9/76 0 10 12 0 death Gates 9/1/77 unavailable unavailable 12 0 death Mulligan 11/4/76 4 4 12 0 death The subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights can also appreciate this quote. Since they believe in the same general ideas of the death penalty as Kroll's argument, that racial discrimination is a continuing factor in the actions of the justice system. The article also uses a similar stylistic approach to Kroll's by the use of many graphs and facts to show patterns of inequality. Except this article focuses on not only the black and white race but also other races such as Asian and Hispanic:
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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