Citation

Wolfgang ME, Riedel M. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1975; 45(4): 658-668.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1180346

Abstract

Following the 1972 Supreme Court decision on capital punishment, the Georgia legislature enacted a death penalty statute that attempts to avoid constitutional objections by establishing discretionary death sentencing for 361 rape cases in Georgia, comparing legal and nonlegal variables. Results indicate that blacks convicted of raping whites were disproportionately sentenced to death.

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