Entries tagged with “Race of Victim”

Apr 07, 2026

What to Know: Race of Victim Effect and the Death Penalty

#### DPI’s​“What to Know” series exam­ines cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment from mul­ti­ple angles, one top­ic at a time. Each install­ment pro­vides essen­tial facts and data on spe­cif­ic aspects of the death penal­ty. ***Why it mat­ters:*** The race of vic­tims weighs heav­i­ly in cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment deci­sions. Studies con­firm that defen­dants with white vic­tims are more like­ly to be charged cap­i­tal­ly, sen­tenced to death, have those sen­tences upheld on appeal, and be exe­cut­ed. > ​“The strongest…