Entries tagged with “Glenn Pierce”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Jun 10, 2022
STUDIES: Louisiana Study Finds Race and Gender Bias in Application of Death Penalty
Louisiana’s death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving white female victims, especially if the defendant in the case is a Black man, a new study by three leading death-penalty researchers has confirmed. Louisiana prosecutors were more than five times as likely to seek the death penalty, and juries more than five times as likely to impose it, in cases involving a Black male offender and a white female victim than in crimes in which both the alleged offender and the victim…