Entries tagged with “Extrajudicial Killings”
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Dec 04, 2015
Counties With Highest Rates of Killings by Police Also Among Highest in Death Sentences
The counties in the United States that have the highest per capita rate of killings by police officers also rank among the highest in the country in the number of people sentenced to death. In his criminal justice blog, “The Watch,” for the Washington Post, Radley Balko details the “remarkable correlation” between killings by police and death sentences imposed. “There are more than 3,000 counties in the United States,” Balko writes. “But the 13 with the highest rates of police killings are not…