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Criminology: racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty: the experience of the united states armed forces (1984–2005)

By David C. Baldus / Catherine M. Grosso / Northwestern University School of Law / Richard Newell, on 1 January 2012


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This Article presents evidence of racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty in the United States Armed Forces from 1984 through 2005.

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