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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 490
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 06:00 pm: | 
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Execution likelier for darker murderers
Study finds link with stereotypical features in cases with white victims
Reuters
May 9, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO - The more “black looking” an African-American man charged with murdering a white victim, the more likely he is to be sentenced to death, a Stanford University researcher said Tuesday.
Using scores given by white and Asian-American Stanford undergraduates to rate facial features of 44 black men tried for murder in Philadelphia over 20 years, researchers found that 57.5 percent rated to have “stereotypically” black features such as dark skin were sentenced to death.
By contrast, 24.4 percent of black men in similar murder cases and rated by the students as less stereotypically black were sentenced to death, said Jennifer Eberhardt, a Stanford psychologist involved in the research.
Despite the use of ratings from only white and Asian-American students, the findings suggest jurors use stereotypes of black features as a proxy for criminality and punish murder defendants with those features more severely, Eberhardt said.
“They do link although the students have no knowledge of who they are or who they murdered,” Eberhardt said, referring to the defendants, their features and their sentences.
Researchers also set ratings for facial features against a pool of 118 black men tried for murdering other blacks and found no relationship between their features and sentences.
“You could not use the features to predict whether they got a death sentence,” Eberhardt said. “You’re more likely to get a death sentence in the white cases than in the black cases.”
The study adds to other research showing murderers of whites are more likely than murderers of blacks to be sentenced to death, Eberhardt said.
Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. © 2006 MSNBC.com
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12709269
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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 2480
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 09:41 am: |
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"They do link although the students have no knowledge of who they are or who they murdered," Eberhardt said, referring to the defendants, their features and their sentences.
Researchers also set ratings for facial features against a pool of 118 black men tried for murdering other blacks and found no relationship between their features and sentences.
"You could not use the features to predict whether they got a death sentence," Eberhardt said. "You're more likely to get a death sentence in the white cases than in the black cases."
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This is confusing: They "found no relationship between their features and sentences" AND "the students have no knowledge of who they are or who they murdered." If so, Why are the results different for "Black-on-Black crime?"
Overall: I think it was a mistake for them to assume that Blacks and Latinos are not more or less racist than whites and Asians--Black/Latino students should have been included as raters. Since defendants are supposedly afforded a jury of their peers, this overlook could be counted as a major flaw. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2184
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 01:00 pm: |
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Tonya:
A jury of your peers does not entitle you to a jury of your peers. You are not entitled to have people of the same race, sex, background, etc on your jury.
The logic is that a career criminal should therefore have career criminals on his jury, a rapist rapists, etc etc.
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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 2485
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 05:40 pm: |
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Gotchu Chris, thanks. |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1049
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 12:39 am: |
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Tonya, you also forget that many black people hold the same stereotypes against black people that other people do. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 2492
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 09:35 am: |
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Yep, Reneta. |
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