Killing with prejudice : institutionalized racism in American capital punishment /
A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases. In 1978 Warren McCleskey, a black man, killed a white police officer in Georgia. He was convicted by a jury of 11 whites and 1 African American, and was sentenced to death. Although McCleskey...
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New York University Press,
2019
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KF9227.C2 .M37 2019
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