IMPACT ON SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT

Impact on Sentencing and Punishment

Impact on Sentencing and Punishment

Introduction

In the past twenty years, rigorous controls have been implemented, but the system still has symptoms of racial bias. This is racial prejudice for the first time recognized the Supreme Court in Fruman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972). The Supreme Court will decide that the death penalty had been awarded unfairly, and in accordance with the GEST (1996), the Supreme Court considers death penalty was imposed "freakishly" and "meaningless" and "most frequently to Blacks" A few years later (Banner, 2002). The Supreme Court decided, with effective control, the ...