> minorities end up with a capital case way more than white defendants
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>Found these numbers from two different research centers (I can guess that at least one other person will jump on me - using a bit of the Socratic method here)
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>Race of Defendants Executed in the U.S. Since 1976
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>BLACK 462 35%
>LATINO 104 7%
>WHITE 753 56%
>OTHER 24 2%
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>Current U.S. Death Row Population by Race
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>BLACK 1,309 41.93%
>LATINO 387 12.4%
>WHITE 1,351 43.17%
>OTHER 78 2.51%

Ok yes what I said was incorrect actually. But racial disparities do exist....it's just a bit more complicated - the race of the victim plays a bigger part in this than anything.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-and-race