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title: 'Race of Elected Prosecutors in Death Penalty States'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/race-of-elected-prosecutors-in-death-penalty-states'
section: stories
date: '2015-06-07T11:08:00-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:57:54-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
---

N. Fandos, "[A Study Documents the Paucity of Black Elected Prosecutors: Zero in Most States](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/us/a-study-documents-the-paucity-of-black-elected-prosecutors-zero-in-most-states.html?_r=0)," The New York Times, July 7, 2015).