The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases

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…Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined" (As cited in Lacayo, 1987, 80). With great effort, the judicial controls can begin to battle the racial bias of Americas Judicial system but to completely eliminate such a bias, the people involved in the judicial process must learn to look past the race of the offender or the value of the victim, and instead focus on circumstances of the crime.