Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge firefighters used hags filled with compressed air to lift the train off the victim...
...inter changeable nature of the roles paradoxically both aids and hinders the overall performance. Because each actor has the opportunity to taken on the role of the "nobly born" dying victim, the cast creates an appropriately communal feeling. Yet because the roles are so amorphous and indistinguishable, it is difficult for any one actor to shine...
...Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, "since the beginning of time" Scholarly research on this subject much of it just now becoming available has revealed evidence that simply put death sentences are far more likely to result in those cases in which either the offender is Black or the victim is white...
...article on the subject of the death penalty, this sort of racial discrimination cannot be discerned by a mere glance at our death row population Because murder in America is, for the most part, "segregated"--e.g. whites usually kill whites and Blacks usually kill Blacks--the effects of offender victim discrimination tend to cancel each other out, and the percentage of death row inmates who are Black thus seems to correspond to the percentage of those arrested for homicide who are Black...
...when statistics regarding the race of both the offender and the victim are isolated and analyzed separately, as was done in a 1980 study by two Massachusetts criminologists. William Bowers and Glenn Pierce, the results are indeed starting. After a comprehensive examination of the administration of the death penalty in Georgia, Florida and Texas during the period 1973-1980. Bowers and Pierce found strong statistical evidence to support discrimination claims. In Florida for example, among those homicides cases in which the victim was white a Black offender was five times more likely to be sentenced to death than a white...