Professor Baldus and His Colleagues Report That Under Georgia's Post-Furman

question 40

True/False

Professor Baldus and his colleagues report that under Georgia's post-Furman statute black defendants whose victims were white were advanced to a capital sentencing hearing by Georgia prosecutors at a rate nearly five times that of black defendants whose victims were black, and more than three times the rate of white defendants whose victims were black.

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