David Baldus Studied the Death Penalty and Its Impact on Minorities

question 47

Multiple Choice

David Baldus studied the death penalty and its impact on minorities in the early 1990s. What was the most frequently quoted finding of his study?

• A) "The use of the death penalty was proportionate to the racial mix of society as a whole."
• B) "Killers of whites were 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of African Americans."
• C) "Blacks commit murder more frequently than whites."
• D) "A killer of a white victim is less likely than a killer of a black victim to receive the death penalty."
• E) "Blacks are more heavily represented on death row than whites, but more whites are actually executed."

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