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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 383-386Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01716.x
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Researchers previously have investigated the role of race in capital sentencing, and in particular, whether the race of the defendant or victim influences the likelihood of a death sentence. In the present study, we examined whether the likelihood of being sentenced to death is influenced by the degree to which a Black defendant is perceived to have a stereotypically Black appearance. Controlling for a wide array of factors, we found that in cases involving a White victim, the more stereotypically Black a defendant is perceived to be, the more likely that person is to be sentenced to death.
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