In the McClesky v. Kemp case, McClesky challenged his death sentence on the grounds that Georgia’s death penalty scheme was racially bias and violated his rights.
He validated his claim with an exhaustive study conducted by Professor David Baldus, which gathered data from more than 2,000 murder cases.
The study concluded that defendants charged with killing white victims received the death penalty eleven times more often than defendants charged with killing black victims.
Additionally, it was found that Georgia prosecutors were largely responsible for these numbers since they sought the death penalty in 70 percent of the cases composed of black defendants and white victims while only seeking the death penalty 19 percent of the cases which
He validated his claim with an exhaustive study conducted by Professor David Baldus, which gathered data from more than 2,000 murder cases.
The study concluded that defendants charged with killing white victims received the death penalty eleven times more often than defendants charged with killing black victims.
Additionally, it was found that Georgia prosecutors were largely responsible for these numbers since they sought the death penalty in 70 percent of the cases composed of black defendants and white victims while only seeking the death penalty 19 percent of the cases which