SIO289: Our Disgustingly Racist Death Penalty

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This is the second part of our racial bias in criminal justice episodes. This one focuses on sentencing, and explores studies showing just how desperate the death penalty is, and how racial bias drives that.

Baldus et al (1998) -Racial Discrimination and the Death Penalty in the Post-Furman Era Eberhardt et al (2006) – Looking deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black defendants predicts capital-sentencing outcomes
Eberhardt et al (2004) – Seeing Black: Race, crime, and visual processing

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0:00.0	You're listening to Serious Inquiries Only.
0:29.0	Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only.
0:31.0	And Lindsay has already resigned as co-host.
0:33.0	So it's just me again.
0:34.0	God, that didn't work.
0:35.0	Oh, no, you're here.
0:36.0	Okay, you coming back?
0:37.0	No, I'm just kidding.
0:38.0	Lindsay's here to stay.
0:39.0	How are you doing, Lindsay?
0:40.0	Awesome.
0:41.0	What studies are we going to talk about today?
0:44.0	Oh, really good studies.
0:45.0	Really good studies.
0:46.0	So, yeah, so last time we talked about some evidence,
0:49.0	the implicit associations with race impact, performance
0:52.0	in these shooting tasks, right?
0:53.0	And in this part, I wanted to talk about some of the
0:57.0	evidence regarding racial bias in sentencing decisions,
1:00.0	particularly in death penalty cases.
1:02.0	Yikes.
1:03.0	Yeah, yeah.
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