RE: Death penalty

["Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>]

Greetings Visionaires -

One way to determine if our courts are color blind and/or sexist in their
imposition of the death penalty is to determine how many people have been
convicted of capital crimes (by ethnicity and by sex) and (of those) how
many were sentenced to death.

Is anybody aware of any website or resource that will provide these numbers?

Take care,

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas [mailto:dougwils@moscow.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Death penalty
>
>
> Dear visionaries,
>
> In response to Sunil, my concern is that such statistics can be
> misleading,
> as a counter-example should immediately show. What are the percentages of
> men versus women on death row? And are men being discriminated against in
> this? But in today's pc climate even to hint at such a
> counterexample opens
> one up to reckless charges of racism. Hence my concern about the
> race card.
>