Comparing The Death Penalty And Racism

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Throughout all the research, information gathering, I came up that race does play a part in deciding if someone receives the death penalty. Not saying that if the defendant is white or black they will receive the death penalty or if the victim is white or black will cause a person to receive the death penalty. But it is more likely in statics, that a reason whose victims is white has likely of a chance of receiving the death penalty than any other race of a victim.
Racism is a part of the world. A least one person in a group of people could be a racist, don’t have to be just white to be a racist though. With all the information discussed throughout this paper, seems like the white race is more important than another race but it’s not. But,

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