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Baldus study  

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  • The Baldus study, designed and conducted by David C. Baldus, George C. Woodworth, and Charles A. Pulaski, Jr., is a study of “equal justice” in death sentencing during a period of judicial conflict and controversy over capital punishment. This landmark study focused on levels of arbitrariness and racial discrimination in capital sentencing in Georgia during the period 1969–1979. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Baldus Study]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-M082T44F-2

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